A waitress at a St. Louis
Applebee's lost her job for posting online the receipt upon which a pastor had
declined to leave a tip, with a snarky note saying she gave God 10 percent.
After her dinner on Jan. 25,
Pastor Alois Bell crossed out the automatic 18 percent tip charged for parties
of more than eight. "I give God 10% why do you get 18," she wrote
above her signature.
Employee Chelsea Welch — a colleague of the stiffed server — took
a picture of the receipt and uploaded it to the online site Reddit. She
subsequently lost her job, an Applebee's spokesman confirmed to
TheSmokingGun.com, for violating a customer's privacy.
Bell told TheSmokingGun that she had left an 18 percent tip in
cash, and that she was stunned by the publicity: "My heart is really broken.
I've brought embarrassment to my church and ministry."
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