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Applebee’s fires waitress who posted receipt from pastor complaining about auto-tip

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An Applebee's waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager.

Chelsea Welch, the waitress, wrote in an email to Yahoo News that the pastor (who has since been identified as Alois Bell) told Welch's manager at the St. Louis-area Applebee's that the ensuing firestorm had "ruined" her reputation.


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sides...20748.html


The female pastor has also has written a 28-page volume examines spiritual nourishment, complete with references to candy and junk food. The $10 paperback is titled "Watch the Hand that Feeds You." From her size, it appears she doesn't like to follows her own advice.





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02-01-2013 at 08:39 AM.
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02-01-2013 at 08:41 AM.
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People who do things like that shouldn't eat at restaurants. They should just stay home and be cheap there.
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02-01-2013 at 08:55 AM.
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People who do things like that shouldn't eat at restaurants. They should just stay home and be cheap there.
Or at the very least, complain to the manager while you're at the restaurant, rather than stiffing the waitstaff over corporate policy they have no control over, and being snarky about it to boot.
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02-01-2013 at 09:21 AM.
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8 people and bill was only $34.93 prior to gratuity? Wow, that is some cheap vittles.
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02-01-2013 at 09:38 AM.
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8 people and bill was only $34.93 prior to gratuity? Wow, that is some cheap vittles.
Probably split tickets.
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02-01-2013 at 10:11 AM.
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bogus church nobody has ever heard of, what an asswipe
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02-01-2013 at 10:43 AM.
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Probably split tickets.
Then why the auto gratuity?

What if she was leaving the tip on the table in cash?

Auto gratuity is just stupid...pay YOUR workers a livable wage and just put it into the prices of the food.

Imagine the back lash there would be if AB's had $10 meals on their menu, and you got the check and it said it was $12 plus tax. That would be completely unacceptable...but if you say it is $10+$2 + Tax, ohhh, that's all good then.
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02-01-2013 at 10:47 AM.
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Then why the auto gratuity?

What if she was leaving the tip on the table in cash?

Auto gratuity is just stupid...pay YOUR workers a livable wage and just put it into the prices of the food.

Imagine the back lash there would be if AB's had $10 meals on their menu, and you got the check and it said it was $12 plus tax. That would be completely unacceptable...but if you say it is $10+$2 + Tax, ohhh, that's all good then.
You've never been a server.

One night in college I could easily make $100-$120 cash. I doubt I could make $15/hr doing something as fun(serving was fun with a bunch of college kids). You reward and form heirarchy in a restaurant by getting sections with more seating, meaning you have to work harder, but usually get bigger tips due to bigger bills. If servers didnt work off of tips, nobody would want to serve and restaurants arent hiking their menu prices to include the extra $10-$15hr they'd need to have servers.

Theres many reasons why tips are necessary in the restaurant business, if they included $15/hr wages into their menu prices nobody could afford to eat out.
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You've never been a server.
No...I haven't...but that still doesn't make sense as to why the food needs to be priced as "base plus mandatory fee" rather than just total cost.

Would you find it acceptable to go to McD's and get an $0.80 McDouble...and go to pay and the total be $1.10 because there is tax and a mandatory $0.20 labor fee?

How does it make ANY sense to say that there is a minimum wage EVERYWHERE in the country that HAS to be followed. Except if you serve food...then F-you...you get $2 an hour. Ohh, but you work behind a counter with an M on your hat while you serve food? OK...you get $7 then.

You don't have to be a server to understand the simple math there, and how its perception currently is flawed.
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Then why the auto gratuity?

What if she was leaving the tip on the table in cash?

Auto gratuity is just stupid...pay YOUR workers a livable wage and just put it into the prices of the food.

Imagine the back lash there would be if AB's had $10 meals on their menu, and you got the check and it said it was $12 plus tax. That would be completely unacceptable...but if you say it is $10+$2 + Tax, ohhh, that's all good then.
Oh, I completely agree with you. I loathe auto-grats. If I'm auto-gratted, I will not leave an additional tip, even if they probably deserved one.
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02-01-2013 at 10:57 AM.
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She left $6 in cash on the table. She did the server a favor by removing it from the bill since being on the bill means taxes will be taken out of it. The pastor also said that she was charge the tip that was on the bill also. So she paid over $12 in tips.
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How does it make ANY sense to say that there is a minimum wage EVERYWHERE in the country that HAS to be followed. Except if you serve food...then F-you...you get $2 an hour. Ohh, but you work behind a counter with an M on your hat while you serve food? OK...you get $7 then.
It is mandatory for a restaurant to pay a server the difference between the ~$2/hr base pay + tips so they at LEAST meet minimum wage. I don't think anyone really does that though. Waiters and waitresses probably commit the most tax fraud out of any profession too.
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No...I haven't...but that still doesn't make sense as to why the food needs to be priced as "base plus mandatory fee" rather than just total cost.

Would you find it acceptable to go to McD's and get an $0.80 McDouble...and go to pay and the total be $1.10 because there is tax and a mandatory $0.20 labor fee?

How does it make ANY sense to say that there is a minimum wage EVERYWHERE in the country that HAS to be followed. Except if you serve food...then F-you...you get $2 an hour. Ohh, but you work behind a counter with an M on your hat while you serve food? OK...you get $7 then.

You don't have to be a server to understand the simple math there, and how its perception currently is flawed.
If you're working for $2.50/hr and serving a table of usually 8+ gets auto grat. You bust your ass and you get stiffed? Would you be happy? Its guaranteeing you that your work isnt for nothing. If you dont like auto-grat on big parties then don't eat there, or dont eat in a big party.

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Oh, I completely agree with you. I loathe auto-grats. If I'm auto-gratted, I will not leave an additional tip, even if they probably deserved one.
Thats stupid and selfish, auto-grat isnt controlled by the server but by the system more often than not. My ALOHA system auto put it on when there were 8 or more seats at the table.

You're all a bunch of cheap bastards, like eating out but not paying for anymore than the food.
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02-01-2013 at 11:14 AM.
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You're all a bunch of cheap bastards, like eating out but not paying for anymore than the food.
You are completely missing the point and just letting your emotions getting you all caught up in a whirl because someone stiffed you once.

I am saying...I have no problem paying $15 for an AB's meal and a drink, and having a person bring it to me while I just sit there.

I DOOOO have a problem with being told I am going to pay $8 for a meal, and once I am done being told I have to then pay $15 because there were two tables of 4 pushed together, of which this jackass teenage girl that only checked on me once gets $3 even though she spent most of her time behind the counter playing on her iPhone.
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