Recently there have been two articles on tipping a waiter
that caught my attention and made me think some. The most resent a football player for a Philadelphia
team took a couple of buddies out to a trendy restaurant for lunch and he
picked up the bill for $60 plus tips.
Well he only left a twenty one cent tip and also left his credit card on
purpose to make a point. Well the waiter
took a picture of this and pasted it on the restaurants facebook page and was
very derogatory to the player, the football team and the NFL. This started a media storm and one celebrity
said that tips were this man’s wages and that the football player was robbing
the man of his wages and next time in Philadelphia he was going to give the
waiter 1000 dollars to save face for celebrity’s.
The player was interviewed on local TV about the
incident. He explained that the waiter
was very rude to him and his friend. The
waiter also said some very derogatory things about football. He said that a tip was for good service. This waiter did not give good service;
therefore purposely he only left 21 cents and also left his credit card so the
waiter would know he could have left more but did not because of the poor
service
.
I have to agree I was always taught that a tip was for good
service and was not the obligation of the patron. As you know we have a time share in Disney
and one of first timeshare I picked up a broacher on restaurants and education
on fine dining.In it there were a couple of things I found interesting. One was that a tip was customary for good
service not that it was monitory.I think that Disney being a leader in the
entertainment industry would know best what a tip is for. It also said use a sliding scale for your tip
it said for good service give 15% for better service give 18% and for great
service leave 20%. They also said that
you do not tip on the tax.
The other tip incident was a pastor had went out after
church one Sunday and they paid for several people to eat and the bill came up
to over a 100 dollars the restaurant add a 18 % gratuity to the bill. The pastor crossed the tip out and wrote I
give 10 % to God I will not give more to man.
The waiter then took a picture of the receipt and placed it on his
personal page and said some very unkind words about Christians, pastors, and
God. Because the post had the pastor’s
name it got back to the pastor what had happen.
The pastor then called the manager of the restaurant and the server was
fired for posting a patron’s name.
Another thing I want to point out before I get to the meat
of this one is that both waiters posted receipt on Facebook. One of the waiters were fired for this the
other was praised for it. I think it
absolutely wrong that a name of a person should be posted on Facebook without
their knowledge or consent.
The real meat here is what the pastor wrote. He said I will not give man more then I give
God. I understand what he was saying but
I think this goes back to what I was talking about earlier. A tip is for service it is not a gift. The pastor thoughts are the opposite of the
actor the actor thinks it is a right of the waiter to get the money where the
pastor thinks that a tip is a gift.
I do not like to be hard on pastors but because of this
attitude of a tip they have driven away a possible person to Christ instead of
drawing them in to Christ. I went a long
way for my point but it is that just little things like a tip can have an
impact on heavenly things. That is why
the Bible says
Be careful
for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Do everything with
prayer. That says a little pray over a
tip can go a long way.
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