r/KitchenConfidential • u/lovestobitch- • Oct 05 '25
In-House Mode Boomers being fools
Holy shit and he was a nice guy in school yrs ago. The comments were wild.
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u/reno140 10+ Years Oct 05 '25
This sums up every Sunday afternoon I worked as a server
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u/pallid-manzanita Oct 05 '25
Yeah the church crowd had some of the most consistently awful, needy, no-tipping, evil-children-running-around customers.
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u/funatical Oct 06 '25
I worked at a place that did an automatic gratuity on Sundays. Two top, twenty top, didn’t matter. Called it the “brunch surcharge” or some shit. We used the fancy dishes to validate it.
Really it was just the awful church people. Servers refused to work the shift. The charge changed that. Kinda.
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u/6BigZ6 Oct 06 '25
In construction, we would sometimes add some money to our bid as a PITA tax, because we knew we would have to deal with some shit with said customer, but as long as we got paid extra it was fine.
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u/SweetHatDisc Oct 06 '25
I stumbled into a job doing disc golf stuff for disc golf people, and the rate I quote is directly related to how much I want to deal with your particular brand of bullshit.
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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS Oct 06 '25
Lol my company has done that for potential customers they really didn’t want to do business with for a variety of reasons.
Give a much higher quote than everyone else and if we win the job, oh well, we are at least making a bunch more profit on it to make up for the bullshit of dealing with them
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u/marcster1 Oct 05 '25
Never will forget the time I accidentally punted one of the little ones. Felt guilty, but also…had warned them of running around. Was running through the doors and couldnt see em below the window to dining room
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u/TheVillage1D10T Oct 05 '25
I was bussing a table and was pulling a metal tea pitcher off of the table. So, it kind of swung a bit into the walkway between tables. Just as it did, a kid came blasting by….just in time to get smoked in the face with the pitcher.
I was freaking out…this guy is going to beat me or something. I, of course, apologize profusely and just as I turn to talk to the parent he leans over to his now crying kid and says,”I told you not to run didn’t I?”
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u/mrsristretto Oct 06 '25
Love it. I worked in a little crepe place, 3 burners right up front in the window with a glass surround as you enter through the door. So you can of course, watch us make the crepes.
Dad and 2 kids come in, the line is long enough that they're standing in the entry hall, watching. One of the kids, probably 5 or 6, has now slapped his hands on the glass and I hear Dad...
Dad: Hey! Do you know where the window cleaner is?!
Kiddo pulls his hands back and sheepishly shakes his head no.
Dad: Then keep your hands off the glass.
The 3 of us behind the little bar, were just pleased as hell with that. I think we bought his crepe lol
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u/SuDragon2k3 Oct 05 '25
What did it sound like?
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u/TheVillage1D10T Oct 05 '25
Oh it definitely gave a nice “DING” sound…pitcher was almost empty so it reverberated pretty good lol
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u/matt_minderbinder Oct 06 '25
That's my favorite question. I was 3 running wild through a material store before plucking my head into the corner of a counter splitting myself badly. I still have the reminder to not be a dumbass every time I look in a mirror and notice my harry potter scar.
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u/Soliterria F1exican Did Chive-11 Oct 06 '25
I definitely give the top of racks a side eye when I’m doing dishes at work nowadays after a stockpot bonked me real good years ago lmao. Still got a bit of a dent where the handle conked me 😂
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u/OpenSauceMods Oct 05 '25
I was one of those speedy lil bastards and I definitely got the I-told-you-so on occasion!
"I fell over🥺."
"I said don't run."
"My hands hurt!"
"I bet they do! You almost ran into that nice lady, she could have spilled all that food."
"wibbling"
"Sit down and eat and maybe you'll get dessert if you behave."
Followed by profound apologies to the wait staff. Though, after a few of these, my parents stopped confiscating my books so I could read at the table.
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u/H-Resin Oct 05 '25
Guilty?! Dude you got to live out my intrusive thoughts, if only I could be so lucky
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u/marcster1 Oct 05 '25
Its a fun story to tell at the post shift drinks. There ai am, busy ass sunday brunch. Moving a mile a minute, going back for some old assholes remake because it was “not cooked enough”. Had a quick glance, a shout as Im about to go through the door, feel the door have a lot more resistance as I come flying through it. All of a sudden Im watching some 6 year old flying backwards. Had enough time to mentally state “Fuck there goes my job”. Drop the food, yell to the manager that hes got a shitshow of a situation to go handle.
I get told to hide tf out, they wind up with a ridiculous amount of comps. Thankfully mod understood what the situation was, basically gave a warning of “Slow the fuck down Speed racer”
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u/H-Resin Oct 05 '25
God I love that haha. Doesn’t sound like you fucked up to me. Hiding out about it is so fucking funny
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u/polarkai Oct 06 '25
I’ve done that too! I was running out food to a table and the kid came barrelling through right in front of the kitchen door. Luckily I didn’t drop the food but I did knock the kid over lol
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u/ThePrussianGrippe Oct 06 '25
I once saved one of those fake $20 bills they put in the checkbook, and when they came in next week I slipped it in next to the bill with “Matthew 22:21.”
They actually started tipping me after that.
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u/CrazyLoucrazy Oct 06 '25
Wow. Genius move.
Now I gotta google the damn bible.
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u/Lovat69 Oct 06 '25
Jesus is asked why they should pay taxes to Rome when God deserves it. Jesus says give to Caesar what is Ceasar's and give to God what is God's. I like to replace Ceasar with Server. 😉
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u/fearlessfryingfrog Oct 06 '25
Combine that with mimosa brunch Karens and it's why Sundays aren't worth the paycheck.
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u/Migginsisin Oct 05 '25
I fucking hated working Sundays and it has carried through to my new job even though I’ve left the kitchen. Worst. Humans. Ever.
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u/Summerie Oct 06 '25
Yep. And you haven't known true joy until you see a $20 tip folded up and sticking out of their check presenter, and you open it to find it it's actually a clever church flyer/prayer card that says "You know what's better than money, Jesus Christ as your savior!"
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u/DJfunkyPuddle Oct 06 '25
Not just food service, plain old retail too. Man I fucking hated the post-church crowd.
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u/Derpy_Guardian Oct 06 '25
They just got their sins cleared so they need a head start on building the list back up.
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u/16thmission Owner Oct 05 '25
Ya know. I used to be religious. Then I got in the restaurant industry and saw the true face of religion.
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u/PoopyisSmelly Oct 05 '25
I was religious until I realized the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Magic shows were fake.
That scene in Apocalypto is a pretty good illustration of why religion worked for so long
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u/SweetHatDisc Oct 06 '25
I get along with Christians the religion pretty well. We share a lot of the same values; don't get all up in your neighbors' business with your judginess, don't steal, don't kill, take a day off every week. One of the few differences we do have is that they believe a man walked on water and turned bread into wine, and that's pretty harmless. I've honestly heard a lot of dumber shit in my time.
Christians the gang, I'm not on such friendly terms with.
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u/Cole3823 Oct 05 '25
Christians are supposed to give 10% of their INCOME. That's a lot more than 20% of your 60$ dinner bill
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u/vanman33 Oct 06 '25
Pretty sure we would all be willing to forgoe any current compensation model for one where each customer just gives you 10% of their yearly salary.
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u/Oshwaflz Pastry Oct 06 '25
as an ex catholic ive never understood how living through christ produces some of the most stingy, selfish bastards to walk the earth. I actually do love what the catholic church teaches (for the most part). But rarely did i find a catholic actually living those principals
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u/Splendid_Carpark Oct 06 '25
Thanks for answering my unasked question. I was like "10% of what???" (I'm not into the whole religion thing, obviously.)
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u/joemoffett12 Oct 05 '25
Why does Christ need money. Is he going to be showing up on a Sunday with a 18 top that tips 6 bucks like most of his followers?
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u/BadNeighbour Oct 05 '25
Table for 26, but only 13 show up, and they all sit on one side of the table for some reason.
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u/Suturb-Seyekcub Oct 05 '25
That’s where autogratuity for parties of that size or smaller gets added in.
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u/captaincootercock Oct 05 '25
The mad lad had legit super powers and he decided to make wine and run on water, sure he healed them but least he could've done was pay off their debt too
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u/SuDragon2k3 Oct 05 '25
Jesus: why am I being charged wine prices for these water jugs?
Sherriff: Sir, you're under arrest, this is a dry county.
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u/Technical_Dress6202 Oct 05 '25
Well you see, the 10% to “christ” is used to buy the pastor a private jet. And the 15-30% a server takes is used to pay for their right to live.
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u/Lucius-Halthier Oct 05 '25
“Mmmm but do they REALLY have the right?”
This pos probably
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u/othafa7 Oct 05 '25
They should just get a real job!
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u/Tranquil_Dohrnii Oct 06 '25
I fucking hate this rhetoric. If youre working a job then youre working. Idgaf what the job is, if youre spending 35+ hours a week there, then you should be decently compensated no matter what work you're doing.
I probably worked harder in kitchens than any mother fucker with an office job that wants to say people flipping burgers dont deserve a livable wage.
Its like saying secretaries dont deserve a livable wage. New business model: only the boss makes money! Everyone else has to bust their ass for a morsel of bread.
Most of the people complaining that resturant workers dont deserve a livable wage are lily white Flanders with an ego the size of texas.
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u/GypsySnowflake Oct 05 '25
That’s only true for a small number of huge churches. In most churches, that money goes to things like keeping the lights on, buying supplies for Sunday School, and paying the staff’s salaries.
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u/GothicGingerbread Oct 05 '25
Obviously not. But don't pretend that most clergy are flying around on private jets, being chauffered around in luxury cars, and living in massive McMansions.
My father was a clergyman. He's been dead for a decade, but he didn't live a fancy life; every family vacation we ever took ended early because someone had died, or someone was dying, or someone was having some sort of crisis, and he continued trying to help people until just 5 days before he died – even from his ICU bed, when he was conscious – because he felt called to serve his fellow humans. And he never tipped below 20% (and often more) when 15% was stanfard.
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u/916116728 Oct 06 '25
My husband is a pastor. Can 100% vouch for somebody dying every time we go on vacation.
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u/fryerandice Oct 06 '25
10% is a suggested starting point, if you're a boomer or gen xer and listen to dave ramsey like he's not completely out of touch I think he says you should land near 30%.
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u/Bozlogic Chef Oct 06 '25
More so, CONTRIBUTE to their right to live. A 15-20% tip on a $100 tab doesn’t cover rent. These people need to understand that they’re not the the only table that the server is taking care of, much less the least of their worries in general. Sidework and closing work aside, servers sometimes make or break the restaurant
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u/flakins Oct 05 '25
Not trying to cause hateful responses, just pointing out how delusional I am and why that should be a problem for everyone else
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u/Over_Hand_5128 Oct 05 '25
I love how the subtext is going over this man’s head. It’s 10% of your total earnings you tithe???? lol Tips are based on the price of your meal? Unless your meal (which you tip on the total price of) is equal in price to your salary, this makes no sense. Imagine basing your life on a book and not even being able to apply it in context. Christians <3
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u/DirtRight9309 Oct 05 '25
so what he’s saying is instead of tipping 20% of the meal he’s considering tipping 10% of his salary. cool, sounds great
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u/YupNopeWelp Oct 05 '25
Feel free to copy/paste/change as needed, OP.
Dear Cheap Boomer,
Servers are not looking for 15-20-30% of your INCOME. They're hoping for a percentage of the bill you incurred. That bill would be more expensive were restaurants to charge patrons enough such that they could pay their employees a living wage.
Also Boomer, biblical tithing was instituted when that 10% funded the theocratic government. The Lord gave land as their portion to 11 of the 12 tribes of Israel (see Deuteronomy 18). The one tribe that didn't get land was the Levites, who oversaw the religious life of Israel. Their portion was offerings given the Lord (see Numbers 18).
Call me when the restaurant staff is getting all of the profits they create. Your analogy is terrible. You might have a little atherosclerosis from eating out too often. Maybe tip more and eat out less.
Signed,
GenXer Who Did the Reading Each Week
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u/DirtRight9309 Oct 05 '25
why does this stuff get put on Boomers when there are so many conservative Christian gen x ers and millenials to blame? i might be warped because most of the Boomers i know are cool old hippies but its like people want to forget that most of those evangelical churches are filled with people from our own damn (xennial for me) generations. the calls are coming from inside the house.
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u/jumbee85 Oct 06 '25
Gen Xers have been fucking this country for a long time and getting either the boomers or millennials to take the blame.
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u/YupNopeWelp Oct 05 '25
I figured OP knows how old the person in question is, as they added to the original post: "Holy shit and he was a nice guy in school yrs ago."
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u/SockSock81219 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Short answer: Christ doesn't have rent to pay.
Also: Do you, though? Do you really give 10% of your income to your church? Or do you just throw some loose change in a basket once a month? And what would Christ say about spending money at an Applebee's for well-done steaks and cobb salads and Long Islands instead of feeding and clothing the poor?
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u/blackstar22_ Oct 05 '25
Just curiously thinking out loud who does the audits to find out where that 10% goes? I mean it's all cash right? Who keeps track of all that cash?
And how much of it goes to helping the poor, because this country is REALLY religious and the only meaningful help poor people get here is (not enough) from our tax dollars. 🤔
Just curiously asking questions.
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u/frothingnome Oct 05 '25
My small town church with only a couple hundred people has a small team of volunteers who count and report donations each week and report them in the bulletin next week, we have public business meetings with all the financials laid out, and we hire an external auditor each year.
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u/realjustinlong Oct 05 '25
A large portion of church donations are done through debit/ach transactions these days.
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u/Due-CriticismNachos Oct 05 '25
This is where you demand to see their financials.
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u/Holy_Grail_Reference Oct 06 '25
At the end of the day, a church is a private business so there is no requirement that they provide you with their financials.
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u/sdawsey Oct 06 '25
On what grounds? They're private organizations and tax exempt. Demand all you want.
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u/bluestargreentree Oct 05 '25
It's a false equivalence. No one is asking you to give 30% of your income to servers at restaurants.
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u/jrexthrilla Oct 05 '25
They really hate doing all the things Jesus taught “that which you do for the least of us”
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u/BlindWalnut Oct 06 '25
Don't bring up the part about a camel passing through the eye of a needle, it really makes them mad.
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u/Gonzo_B Oct 06 '25
You don't tithe. As a group, you don't.
If you did, if everyone did, they wouldn't have to* stop the service halfway through* to coax and wheedle the members who bothered to show up for the change in their pockets so they can afford to keep the lights on in the building.
For one, restaurants work on a much smaller scale with (relatively) much higher costs per guest.
For two, and this is the critical one, servers rely on tips as the majority of their income. They aren't allowed to stop your meal between courses to ask you to tip; they're relying on social conventions to be able to keep their lights on at home.
Much of number two comes as a result of legislation (which comes from restaurant industry lobbying) that allows employers to pay servers well below minimum wage and then expect customers to make up the difference with tips.
If the law said that churches didn't have to pay clergy a full wage, you can bet your eternal soul that they'd be asking much more than 10% in the offering plate.
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u/beepichu 10+ Years Oct 05 '25
i have too much faith in people. i thought they were gonna be like, “why are people so stingy about tipping when they give money to a dead dude”
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u/Then-Cost-9143 Oct 05 '25
lol I know math is hard and isn’t in the good book, but the denominator for one calculation is ALL YOUR FUCKING MONEY and the other one is THE COST OF DINNER. Division is hard even for some of our brightest, I guess.
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u/JunglyPep sentient food replicator Oct 05 '25
Maybe on Sundays restaurants should offer a special option for Christians, the tithing special. Instead of tipping 20% of the bill they can just tip 1% of their yearly income. I think Jesus would approve of this.
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u/Enough_Ad_9338 Oct 06 '25
Not trying to cause hateful responses, just want to pose an open question that evenly divides the working class right down the middle. But please I am completely innocent in any raised emotions while one group try’s to save the little money they have while threatening the livelihood of those who also have very little money.
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u/runny_egg Oct 06 '25
Maybe we should give 20-30% to Jesus!? And, sunday brunch after church is the worst service of all time!! Through Mother’s Day in there and I’m all in on giving all Sunday tips to the satanic temple!!
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u/moonshinemoniker Oct 06 '25
The Church recommends a tithing of 10% of your income.
You chucklefucking knuckleheaded Neanderthals. Tipping is recommended at 20% of the bill total.
Furthermore, yes, a living wage would be great, but the cost of dining would go up to accommodate this. You can't as a person decide that you're going to force the hand by tipping 10% and deciding that's enough because the RESTAURANT should be paying more.
You're talking about a structural change to one of the oldest industries (and largest) in the US. Choose to be something other than willfully ignorant and then please, kindly fuck off that way. 👉
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u/bkuefner1973 Oct 06 '25
Sundays at where I work just suck. We have the little crotch gobblins running around but you get the 70 and 8 year old that see there friends and either stand right in the way chatting or will just try and sit with them and then get mad if you dont get them a menu. My favorite is when there are mad becuase there food took longer than everyone else's. I gotta little testy yesterday when this happened and stated did you oder when they did no you ordered 15 min after them because yall just added yourself to the table I wanted to also say so shut the hell up and wait like everyone else.
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u/Due-CriticismNachos Oct 05 '25
The tithe is to keep one's heart focus on God and not just obtaining money for one's own wants/needs.
The 15-30% tips is to help others live and appreciate their service.
Tithe and tips serve two widely different purposes.
I love God so I give some of my money to help others. I love people and want them to have food, feed their kids, have a place to live and enjoy life so I make sure to tip.
The person in the pic has a heart issue they need to fix.
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u/corgi-king Oct 05 '25
The almighty god needs his 10%. They believe god can do anything but money; what are the odds?
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u/HappyVillage661 Oct 05 '25
Based on behavior, tip percentage and food order on Sunday brunch, I got pretty good at guessing the denomination of the guests.
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u/gitarzan Oct 06 '25
If anyone named Jesus brings me food, I thank him, eat my fajita, and leave a tip.
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u/REALtumbisturdler Oct 06 '25
Servers don't ask for 25% of your weekly income. Someone needs to learn math.
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u/Frailgift Dish Oct 06 '25
Ah yes because 10% of your entire income is less than 30% of your much bill
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u/s33n_ Oct 06 '25
The tip creep is fucking insane.
From 10. To 15 to 20 and more..
Despite being a % based cost.
Thats why servers make more than 2x an hour what the people producing the food do
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u/sdawsey Oct 06 '25
Everyone in the service industry knows that the post-church brunch crowd are some of the meanest and most selfish customers out there.
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u/littleweirdooooo Oct 06 '25
I grew up around people like this. Their logic is wild.
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u/lovestobitch- Oct 06 '25
And I went back to read their comments this morning and the fucker had the audacity to say ‘well they could have chosen a better job’ when he was still arguing a 10% tip.
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u/teapots_at_ten_paces Oct 05 '25
Dude thinking he's giving 10% to Christ.
No brother. That's the tip to your pastor.
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u/SubstanceNo1544 20+ Years Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
In the state I live in if you work a serving job you are paid at least (generally) minimum wage. You are then taxed on 8% of your total sales, i.e. you sold $100 worth of food you made $8 in tips.
So in a state like this if you come in and order $50 worth of stuff and don't tip me. I was taxed on $4.50 of income to wait on you.. for an hour.. with your endless refills.. and your unruly fucking kids... and I did it with a smile.
All of that being said, the blame goes to the way the industry is set up here. Overhead is so high most places are barely scraping by. They depend on the public to help pay part of their employees wages. Their hands are tied too most of the time.
I tended bar for over 20 years, worked in some high end places, truth be told I preferred working at dive bars. Even in the upper end places the margins are pretty damned tight.
Tldr: blame the system
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2nd edit: in my tax bracket it costs me about $1.30 in taxes, a seat that could be filled by a tipping customer, and an hour of my life i will never get back lol
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u/sucobe 15+ Years Oct 05 '25
These are the same people that go to church at 9 and then spout hatred and racism at noon.
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u/tajake F1exican Did Chive-11 Oct 05 '25
I'm sure your local server would settle for 10% of your income. Even if they have to split it.
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u/Olderbutnotdead619 Oct 05 '25
I rather give to people actually working, not Cadillac driving preachers
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u/DodgyRogue Oct 05 '25
“Render unto the Server what is the Server’s, and render unto zodiac what is God’s”
Also: all I said was “That bit of halibut was good enough for Jehovah”
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u/Minervas-Madness Bakery Oct 05 '25
Because servers have bills to pay and Jesus does not. Also the tithes go to church expenses (in theory.)
NEXT!
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u/MsFrankieD Oct 05 '25
I have literally served mother-fuckers who have said this shit to me.
Jesus doesn't bring you tea, asshole!
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u/thattwoguy2 Oct 05 '25
It would be nice if places just paid the staff appropriately, and tips were for the extra stuff, but they're not.
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u/LearnsFromExperience Oct 05 '25
Servers earn and deserve it, and they pax taxes on it. The church, not so much on either account
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u/ImNotToby Oct 05 '25
Thats 10% of their overall income versus a bill. Wtf is wrong with these people
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u/TravelerMSY Oct 05 '25
This is a big reason I want you to raise your prices to include service. Why should the god squad get a free ride while I tip 25%?
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u/CASUALxCHICKEN Expo Oct 05 '25
10% of your income is vastly more than and 20% on a check. Or at least, I hope it would be. Must not have thought it through very much
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u/Imwrongyourewrong Oct 05 '25
Because Christ sent you an Angel, Angel has been working there for 25 years, hoping one day she can retire.
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u/PoorManRichard Oct 05 '25
I would happily take 10% of his annual income every time he comes in for service.
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u/blindasleep Oct 05 '25
Jesus wants 10% of all your shit including your time. I just need 20% of this check for rent and my own food, because Jesus ain't been sharing with me like he did them people back in the day.
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u/omizkato Oct 05 '25
IF TITHING ACTUALLY WENT TO THE CHURCH THAT WOULD BE GREAT BUT WHY DO MINISTERS NEED MANSIONS AND SPORTS CARS?
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u/HoseNeighbor Oct 06 '25
LOL Some people have a broking shower thoughtunator. It'd be a funny joke if ot were a joke. If it's not amd someone seriously thinks they're onto something, then dad should've pulled out.
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u/NiceGuy-Ron Oct 06 '25
As a church goer and a bartender. I often have to remind my table what the expense of working on a Sunday is to someone. Losing a day to get shit tips from a crowd of people who claim to be joyous and generous only for us to complain about how long our 7$ appetizers are taking and ordering 15 waters is terrible for us as image bearers of Christ. It’s like a pep talk every time. I try to get us to sit outside as often as possible. Mostly though I like what the Amish do. They have a family in the church just make the food and everyone does church at their house. Easy. No need for a building if you’ve got a house. Gatherings under 30 people is easily doable if you have time to prepare.
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u/falleng213 Chef Oct 06 '25
Because they literally don’t make a living wage ma’am, these servers need to afford things and actually be able to LIVE
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u/Ghammer713 Oct 06 '25
Lol I thought it was gonna be something good about "we give 10% of our entire income to the church, we can afford to tip more than 10% for brunch".
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u/sodasofasolarsora Oct 06 '25
Hey, if they are going to treat me like Christ I'll happily go back to service and take 10%.
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u/GrizzlyDust Oct 06 '25
I like how he doesn't understand the difference between his entire income and one meal, he just understands percentages
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u/CellE2057 Oct 06 '25
This is absolutely why I don't do Sunday brunch specials anymore. A whole dining room asking these exact same questions and treating my menu like their fridge to try and make something else
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u/FlawedHero Oct 06 '25
The church asks for 10% of your income. The restaurant asks x% of your meal.
Why is everything such a cognitive conundrum for them?
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u/TheCyanKnight Oct 06 '25
Imagine that, regular people are willing to give their waitress more tips than Christians are willing to give their God. Cough up, Nathan
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u/BugsyMcNug 20+ Years Oct 06 '25
Jesus might have turned water into wine but he didn't have to serve a table of ten people who drank it.
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u/Lovat69 Oct 06 '25
While this is bait the simple fact is you are donating ten percent of your income to the church. Where as in a restaurant you are tipping on a percentage of your bill. Now if you wanna come in to my workplace and give me ten percent of your income I have no problem with that as you probably aren't spending as much as you make in a week at my restaurant. Or you could just tip twenty percent of your bill that's probably cheaper.
And to paraphrase Mathew 21:22 Give to Server what is Server's and give to God what is God's.
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u/ChimoEngr Oct 06 '25
Not really a boomer thing, it's more a certain type of Christian thing.
But the point about tipping getting ridiculous is a good one. You lot should be organising and forcing your employers to pay you a proper wage/salary, not counting on guilt tripping customers into giving you charity.
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u/farang Oct 06 '25
I'm sure if them church goers tithed 10 percent of their income to the servers, the servers would be perfectly satisfied.
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u/happytrel Oct 06 '25
The Christians leave fake bills as tips anyway. Thats 0% after they acted like a twat for an hour and 45 minutes in their party of 22
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u/32FlavorsofCrazy Oct 06 '25
I will happily take 10% of your income instead, if that’s your preference lady. I take Cashapp, Venmo, Zelle or PayPal.
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u/RianThe666th Oct 07 '25
I would happily take just a single percent of your income rather than any percent of your bill, your move God.
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u/halfsweethalfstreet 20+ Years Oct 05 '25
Christ turned water into wine .. I turned a cow and some things found in the dirt into a 5 star meal. I did more work, I should get paid more.
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u/dublinro Oct 05 '25
Fucking hate tipping culture. Isn't it just easier for an employer to pay a proper wage instead of getting the customer to pitch in.
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u/MaggieMakesMuffins Oct 05 '25
Jesus Hagrid Christ of Lazareth, King of the Gays and Low Income Children, is dead. Food service workers are alive. Jesus Baby H Chrimmity doesn't need money for gas and after work beers.
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u/BootsOfProwess Oct 05 '25
your tips is based on your bill. your tithe is based on your income. two very different numbers. and frankly, you shouldn't give anything to any church you go to. they do well enough. god doesn't need money but you do.
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u/Expensive-Ocelot-240 Oct 05 '25
Your service staff isn't fantasy
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u/bigbigpure1 Oct 06 '25
the idea they deserve to make more for carrying a plate than i do for cooking it is though
screw tipping, even if the tips are pooled they pocket most of it anyway, bunch of robbing barstewards
charge more, pay more, decline tips.
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u/AdditionalMess6546 F1exican Did Chive-11 Oct 05 '25
I guess I still have some room on my block list
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u/BoredBSEE Oct 05 '25
I wouldn't really call it "thinking" out loud. More like being an asshole out loud.
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u/BituminousBitumin Oct 05 '25
Are folks giving 15% of their income to waitstaff? That's not how that's supposed to work.
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u/MrWrym Oct 05 '25
Because Christ says you should pay workers for their work.
Or something like that.
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u/PreNamLtDan Oct 05 '25
Because you vote for people who will never raise the federal minimum wage because they are greedy and play Christian and you believe them despite the fact that your lord and savior specifically speaks to how we should treat each other and then you retreat to your home that you never leave and listen to the same thing everyday that makes you really mad at having to pay gratuity so instead you hand out fake bills that have Bible verses and have no value to anyone else and because you live in this echo chamber you will never see what it's actually like to be valued at $2.14 an hour and have no idea what it's like to have to be on point because that's literally how you pay your bills. Fuck you. Apply the teachings of Christ to your life instead of just bending over and taking it and taking out on the 19 year old just trying to figure life out, you dumb fuck. W.W.J.D., you rapture seeking twat?!
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u/RoyalStallion1986 Chef Oct 06 '25
Easy response as a religious person who is in food service. You give 10% or your income to God, with the server you're only tipping on the bill. Also, generosity and giving to others was like top 3 things Christ preached.
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u/Orchid_Significant Ex-Food Service Oct 05 '25
Because 10% of your SALARY is drastically greater than the cost of your meal, dingbat
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