Comments on: Schedule Change For Local Waitress Means Goodbye Church Crowd, Hello Tips

By: Brittany

Brittany — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:57:32 +0000

Can you please post or send me the Barna Group research that you cited?

By: John

John — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:45:12 +0000

@dan on parties over 8, and sometimes starting at 6, a mandatory gratuity is included on the checks. If you don’t like it, you can speak with a manager about it most the time.

And I agree, the 2.35 an hour or what not you are earning an hour should be increased, that is the restaurants fault for being cheap and not taking care of their employees. It’s an old system that needs to be changed into today’s new economy. However, bottom line will remain to be, the bottom line.

By: lilly

lilly — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:20:32 +0000

you can’t say it’s just Christians that undertip. it’s probably more noticeable because they come in larger groups at specific times. and the increase in gratuity is proportional to the increase in cost of living. waitresses/waiters are usually paid less than minimum wage, so the tip is actually part of their pay. if they don’t get good tips, they don’t get good pay. i am a proponent for increasing or decreasing tip based on value of service, but will usually never go below 15% unless it is incredibly poor service, and if it’s that bad, i probably won’t stay for the meal anyway.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:27:38 +0000

This needs to be printed out and nailed to the front door (all of the hundreds of front doors) at Willow Creek Community Church… not that it will do any good, other than provide a cathartic release for all of the servers and restaurants at the SE corner of Barrington & Higgins Rd.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:29:22 +0000

Actually, there’s no such thing as a mandatory tip, they’ll add it on, but you’re not required to pay it. And also, being a Christian and a former waitress I found this to be true so many times. If you, as a dinner have a problem with the amount of a decent tip, don’t go out and/or lobby that the restaurant minimum wage be raised to the state minimum. I used to only make $2.45/hour and without those tips I couldn’t make a living! It shouldn’t be up to the dinner to pay their wages, but until it is, help them out a little!

By: maria

maria — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:29:10 +0000

Iam working person and i put in 12 hrs of work a day and iam paid 130 for a month and God has blessed me with it .by Gods grace there are no debts my two girls are in college. if you live in gods ways u will be blessed what others do you dont worry you should walk in gods path dont work on a sunday that is the lord day.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:32:49 +0000

HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:53:40 +0000

There’s 2 sides to every story, and I’ve seen both of this one.

I work for a “Christian” company, and I constantly hear about “good stewardship”. What that means is working 55-80 hours a week for 36 hours pay. (I took a 10% paycut based on the “lower cost of living” when I moved here. Turned out that the cost of living was HIGHER.)

However, I worked food service and delivered pizzas to put myself through college, and I was stiffed more often than not. So now, if we can’t afford a tip, we don’t go out. I’m glad that Philbeck can afford cable, cause we can’t.

Here’s a question, though : since dining prices have more than kept up with inflation since the 80s and early 90s when I did it, how come the standard for tips back then was 10%, and it is now required to be 15%+? That’s an additional 5% PLUS inflation? I wish MY paycheck increased that way…

What really infuriates me, though, are mandatory 18% tips (we have 7 children, well-behaved and not very messy). So where’s the incentive to do a good job, when you have guaranteed pay? We once had the waitress take the mandatory tip off the bill : we then gave her more than that amount. Why? It was about the principle. Oh, and she did an exceptional job.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:54:59 +0000

What a horrible story!!