No Tipping On Sundays
January 30th, 2009
My daughter, taking a break from her pursuit of a graduate degree, is a server at the Chili’s a few miles down from our house. Like many others her age she is already pretty critical of the church and its obvious hypocrisies. Her cynicism is neither atypcial nor incomprehensible. Nor does this kind of thing help—her or others.
A group of six church-goers came in the other night after their evening services and sat down, not in her area but in another server’s. When the girl came to greet them and take their drink order, one of them said, “We want to tell you up front that we will not be tipping you tonight because …”
Are you ready?
“… we do not believe in people working on Sunday.”
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Jill | January 30th, 2009 at 10:35 am
I have always felt that ESPECIALLY on Sundays we needed to leave a nice tip. I have been told by waitresses that the “church crowd” can be notorious about bad tipping…..ugh!
2. dan | January 30th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
So why were the church-goers there at all?
They were punishing an employee by denying a tip but they were rewarding the owners by paying full price on the meal.
3. Derick | January 31st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I understand that not working on the Sabbath is a commandment, but for one, no where does it say you must take your sabbath on Sunday. Just for arguments sake, it the waitress was a Christian and does take a Sabbath, maybe she takes hers on Tuesday. The “Christians” who are came in shouldn’t be judgmental and assume everyone takes their Sabbath when they do. Secondly the taking a sabbath only applies for believers. If the waitress isn’t a Christian then she isn’t going to follow something she doesn’t believe and therefore that Christian group needs to stop being hypocritical and instead show the love of God to the none believers. Showing what is great about God and what he can do for you is so much better than going around telling people that they can’t do this, or they can’t do that.
4. BuriedCaesar | January 31st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
With that sort of pronouncement up front I would have (had I been the server) provided a level of service commensurate with the expectation.
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