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Waiter's Phony $10 Tip Includes Religious Lesson
A $10 bill is a joyful sight for a server. But when one waiter went to retrieve such a note out from under a diner's plate recently, he reportedly noticed something curious. The tip it provided wasn't monetary, but took the form of advice. "SOME THINGS ARE BETTER THAN MONEY," it said on the back, "like your eternal salvation, that was brought and paid for by Jesus going to the cross."

Now I was a waiter a long tie ago back in school and I'd rather get stiffed than receive something like this. I don't need to be preached to or given a religious sermon if I did i would go to a church for such things. :evil:

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,431
    Bad Karma on the person who did that. As if waiting tables isn't hard enough and low paying to boot! Depending on the mood of the server, that customer might think twice about coming back for another meal!
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    this reminds me of the family guy episode where there was a homeless man begging for money and peter goes up to him and acts like he put money in the cup but he put nothing in there. the homeless guy said "hey you didn't put anything in there!" and peter said "HOPE.....i put hope in there.."
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    That's a pretty awful thing to do, considering the inequality of the relationship. The waiter would not be able to 'preach' to his customer, and would not be able to have a dialog with the customer, since they were already gone by the time the waiter found the 'tip'. If the customer paid via credit card (ie. so I know their name and could maybe find their address), I'd be tempted to mail the thing back to them.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    My girlfriend's a server, this would piss her off.
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  • PKTrekGirlPKTrekGirl Posts: 747
    Absolutely atrocious behavior. Not only do they deprive another of the livelihood they earned, but these idiots make tipping more about THEM and their smarmy show of religiosity than about the server, who is working hard to make a living and put food on their own tables.

    Jerks.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    I guess it would depond on how the waiter personally received the tip (messege)
    some might see it as cheap joke and some might apericate the messege
    we all see and take thing's differintly.

    Godfather.
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    why not leave $10 AND the fake bill?

    this is no way for people to try to get people to join their flock. i would bet that this move is a recruiting fail...
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  • Monster RainMonster Rain Posts: 1,415
    Some people really confuse me when they do things like that. I used to work at a bank and there was someone who would leave religious pamphlets in the drive-thru canister furthest from the building so we never could see who it was. We also had someone (maybe the same person) who would leave religious pamphlets on the toilet tank in the men's room.
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,495
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    why not leave $10 AND the fake bill?

    this is no way for people to try to get people to join their flock. i would bet that this move is a recruiting fail...


    I wondered the same thing.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Whoever did this is an asshole. Tip your servers.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    If it wasn't for the religious message I would find that whole thing hilarious. I would probably feel more sympathy for the waiter who got that thing if most of my experiences going out to eat didn't involve waiters or waitresses who were at best passable at their jobs. I mean honestly, I don't go out much any more but I really can't remember the last time I went out for a meal and had great service.
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,617
    If those customers ever come back to that restaurant, the waiter should hand them a pamphlet entitled "Food for Thought" instead of their actual food!
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    To be fair... no one knows if it was the diner's intent to deliver the message. For all we know... some asshole found that pamphlet on the street... like the millions like them strewn along Hollywood Boulevard... and left it, not to deliver a religious message, but simply to be a dick.
    ...
    Those pamplets are used for all sorts of things... selling cars, re-financing your home mortgage, delivering Jesus to the unwashed. I've been fooled and picked one up, thinking it was a 20 or a 10.
    If anyone is to blame... blame the asshole advertisement hacks and printing companies who accept and deliver this kind of crap.
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  • MookiesLawMookiesLaw Posts: 158
    The diner's a douche. What's even more absurd and obscene is that apparently $2.65 per hour is an 'acceptable' (*cough* *cough* *cough*) wage.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    MookiesLaw wrote:
    The diner's a douche. What's even more absurd and obscene is that apparently $2.65 per hour is an 'acceptable' (*cough* *cough* *cough*) wage.
    ...
    Wait... What?
    Wasn't $2.65 an hour the minimum wage... in 1982?
    Where the Hell is this cheap ass restaurant?
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    speaking of tip's.....why is there a tip jar at every walk up taco shop in California ? if I go (and I do) to a taco shop walk up to the window and order I pay for the food and that price already includes the overhead and cost of cooking and wages right ? so why a tip ..I didn't have waiter or a table so why a tip ?

    Godfather.
  • Monster RainMonster Rain Posts: 1,415
    Servers don't have to be paid minimum wage because they receive tips. They almost always wind up taking home more than minimum wage at the end of their shifts. If a server doesn't wind up making minimum wage from their tips and hourly rate, the restaurant owner is legally obligated to make up the difference. I' not sure if that applies to every shift or if it just applies to the pay period in general.

    To be fair, we don't know anything about this tip other than the fact that someone left it. Maybe it was left because the server was horrendous. I've had servers sit around and talk to their friends while our food sat waiting to be be taken to our table. My girlfriend once ordered soup and after 30 minutes the server came over and said that nobody in the kitchen told her it was ready and it got cold so she had to get a fresh bowl made. We saw her talking to her friends just 2 booths away from us the whole time and heard her say she'd already made her rent payment in tips the previous night so we knew it was her fault the soup was cold and that she just didn't care. She never checked on us after the food was brought out and another server had to correct the mistake that was made to my order. She got no tip that night and our receipt had instructions for an online survey, which I made sure to complete.

    Of course, the server who got that fake tip could have been a great server who was very attentive and the customer was an ass. Who knows what the real story is?
    Cosmo wrote:
    MookiesLaw wrote:
    The diner's a douche. What's even more absurd and obscene is that apparently $2.65 per hour is an 'acceptable' (*cough* *cough* *cough*) wage.
    ...
    Wait... What?
    Wasn't $2.65 an hour the minimum wage... in 1982?
    Where the Hell is this cheap ass restaurant?
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Waiting tables is a good living but can be very very hard work, most especially for
    those who excel at it. A good waiter, waitress or bartender are priceless.

    I ran into a religious person at jury duty ... she was ready to teach me the bible,
    this was her goal in life, actually her profession. She also had calling cards.

    Perhaps this diner is the same and truly believes the words written with all their heart.

    Intentions may have been good, some see the world in disconnect with materialism
    rampant and unhappiness and lack of fulfillment on the rise with every dollar spent.

    Perhaps the diner wanted to help in a way that money can not.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Godfather. wrote:
    speaking of tip's.....why is there a tip jar at every walk up taco shop in California ? if I go (and I do) to a taco shop walk up to the window and order I pay for the food and that price already includes the overhead and cost of cooking and wages right ? so why a tip ..I didn't have waiter or a table so why a tip ?

    Godfather.
    ...
    I think that's because there is a Tip Jar at almost every service business.
    I have a tip jar on my desk in my cubicle.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Monster Rain wrote:
    To be fair, we don't know anything about this tip other than the fact that someone left it. Maybe it was left because the server was horrendous. Who knows what the real story is?
    ...
    That's it... Who knows?
    For all we know, the diner found it on the street (thinking he'd found 10 bucks) and just left it on the table with the napkin, straw wrapper and other trash and is simply one of those douchebags that never leaves a tip.
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