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Applebee’s fires waitress who posted receipt from pastor complaining about auto-tip
February 1, 2013 at
08:36 AM
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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.h tml
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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http://www.thesmokingg un.com/docu...zes-687234
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.h
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You're all a bunch of cheap bastards, like eating out but not paying for anymore than the food.
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.