Pastor refuses to tip "I give GOD 10% why do you get 18%"

[QuikSsurfer]

http://gawker.com/5980177/pastor-ref...r-tip-than-god

Unhappy with having to pay a restaurant's auto-gratuity of 18% for parties of eight or more, a pissed-off pastor used his receipt to express his indignation.

"I give God 10% — why do you get 18?," the man wrote above the autograt line before crossing out the pre-printed tip and signing the receipt "pastor."

The St. Louis-area server who posted a pic of the receipt on Reddit said the pastor was dining with a party of 20, and asked to have the $200+ bill broken up into smaller increments in a failed attempt to avoid paying the 18% tip.

"They had no problem with my service, and told me I was great," the server said. "They just didn't want to pay when the time came."

Redditors have been trying to track down the less-than-charitable Christian, but have so far been unable to identify the culprit.

At least one pastor was forced to issue a response denying responsibility, and the server herself has asked fellow Redditors to stop posting personal information of random people "who don't deserve a Reddit mob banging down their Internet door."

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UPDATE

Edit: Pastor has now apologized -- waitress fired.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documen...logizes-687234










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[loochy]

EDIT: I DON'T READ CAREFULLY

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by loochy

Why write anything?

Also, who cares?

A tip isn't mandatory - it's a tip. If you want 10% or however much, add it to the bill.

A party of 20?? Yes, you can expect the restaurant to add gratuity.. Doesn't matter what cult you belong to.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

A party of 20?? Yes, you can expect the restaurant to add gratuity.. Doesn't matter what cult you belong to.

OK I admit i didn't read the OP, I just glanced at the title and the picture.

Yeah, if it's in the bill, pay it dammit. Religion has nothing to do with it.

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

A party of 20?? Yes, you can expect the restaurant to add gratuity.. Doesn't matter what cult you belong to.

34 bucks for a party of 20?
wtf did they eat?
crackers?

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by Psyko Tek

34 bucks for a party of 20?
wtf did they eat?
crackers?

The total bill was over $200. That cheap ass man of god was trying to get out of paying the 18% by having seperate bills

It's all there in the OP

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by Psyko Tek

34 bucks for a party of 20?
wtf did they eat?
crackers?

Reading - how does it work?

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by loochy

Why write anything?

Also, who cares?

A tip isn't mandatory - it's a tip. If you want 10% or however much, add it to the bill.

Many restaurants define it as mandatory with a large group (and rightfully so). This guy is likely stealing.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Many restaurants define it as mandatory with a large group (and rightfully so). This guy is likely stealing.

I know and I agree - i didn't thoroughly examine the OP.

[Rasputin]

I am going to give the waiter a tip. I like it when they put a lemmon slice in my tea, makes the tea better. Thank you iav.

[Raiderhater58]

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

I am going to give the waiter a tip. I like it when they put a lemmon slice in my tea, makes the tea better. Thank you iav.

If you could see all the germs on that lemon slice that has been sitting in the kitchen all day, you probably wouldnt want it in your tea

[Bump]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Many restaurants define it as mandatory with a large group (and rightfully so). This guy is likely stealing.

you can yell at the manager and say the service sucked and the food sucked and then they will remove the auto grat. Legally they can't make you tip.

But **** that pastor and mark down another reason why I hate religion and their stupid followers.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Bump

But **** that pastor and mark down another reason why I hate religion and their stupid followers.

Come on man, that's beyond silly.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Bump

you can yell at the manager and say the service sucked and the food sucked and then they will remove the auto grat. Legally they can't make you tip.

But **** that pastor and mark down another reason why I hate religion and their stupid followers.

Nah.

I'd take it off as manager if they had a good reason to complain. If the service was truly bad and the server was at fault, the auto grat is off.

However, our menus CLEARLY stated that parties of 8 or more would receive an 18% gratuity and we stuck to that and I'd stick up for my employees 10 times out of 10.

You don't go to work, have your section hoarded by a group for 3 hours, and not get tipped. That's not right when you make $2.13 an hour.

And you know what...and my managers used to use me as an example when servers would complain about their auto grat being removed...I was the go to guy for big groups (I loved working them, I was good at them) and I never once had any person (no matter what race, religion, social standing) ask for a manager to remove the auto-gratuity. They would ask ALL OF THE TIME about what it was and I'd say "oh that's the gratuity that is added for groups of 8 or more" and you could tell some of them were annoyed but no one ever complained because people aren't liars...

they weren't going to throw me under the bus after they just received IMPECCABLE service because I know who the bad tippers are and who the complainers are so that's when I give them the best service they could ever get because that's THE ONLY WAY to keep them quiet...

and they'd test me in any way you'd ever know how...they'd get their meals and "not like it", so I'd get them something else and they "wouldn't like it" and I'd never budge, just non-stop apologies and kindness until they finally gave up because they knew I wouldn't break.

It was the easiest job in the world. I just don't let those kinds of people get to me, ever. When people gave me a hard time I'd use the "at least I'm me and they are them" logic 10 times out of 10. I'd rather be their bitch for 1 hour then have to go home to whatever it is they went home to that made them so miserable.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

Nah.

I'd take it off as manager if they had a good reason to complain. If the service was truly bad and the server was at fault, the auto grat is off.

However, our menus CLEARLY stated that parties of 8 or more would receive an 18% gratuity and we stuck to that and I'd stick up for my employees 10 times out of 10.

You don't go to work, have your section hoarded by a group for 3 hours, and not get tipped. That's not right when you make $2.13 an hour.

And you know what...and my managers used to use me as an example when servers would complain about their auto grat being removed...I was the go to guy for big groups (I loved working them, I was good at them) and I never once had any person (no matter what race, religion, social standing) ask for a manager to remove the auto-gratuity. They would ask ALL OF THE TIME about what it was and I'd say "oh that's the gratuity that is added for groups of 8 or more" and you could tell some of them were annoyed but no one ever complained because people aren't liars...

they weren't going to throw me under the bus after they just received IMPECCABLE service because I know who the bad tippers are and who the complainers are so that's when I give them the best service they could ever get because that's THE ONLY WAY to keep them quiet...

and they'd test me in any way you'd ever know how...they'd get their meals and "not like it", so I'd get them something else and they "wouldn't like it" and I'd never budge, just non-stop apologies and kindness until they finally gave up because they knew I wouldn't break.

It was the easiest job in the world. I just don't let those kinds of people get to me, ever. When people gave me a hard time I'd use the "at least I'm me and they are them" logic 10 times out of 10. I'd rather be their bitch for 1 hour then have to go home to whatever it is they went home to that made them so miserable.

I understand what you are saying though. But if policy is to add gratuity for 8 ppl or more. You can't pick and choose which groups to add grat to. That makes you look bad too, because say a party came in one time and didn't get grat'd and then they came back and did with the same number of people, they are gonna be like wtf?