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mudogramx wrote:

I was out eating with my girlfriend a few days ago and couldn't help but notice that there were members of a ministry behind us.  I never pay that much attention to other people in a restaurant, but the proximity and volume of their voices gave me no choice in picking up a few things that were said.  Any who, long story short, one of the guys said, "Who's leaving the tip?"  To which the older man in the group replied, "Oh, we don't leave tips.  We leave a blessing."  WTF?  I'm sure that will help the waitress pay her bills.  I would be insulted.

There's a good possibility that what you heard was a joke.
Or he could have been cheap.

Please don't assume he is representative of Christians or ministers in general.

The Waiter Rant blog had a post about people leaving tracts for waiters instead of a tip, sometimes a blessing written on a card.

Proost wrote:

I never give tips btw that was pretty funny.

Any reason why? A lot of waiters/waitresses, including my brother, make only several dollars per hour (my brother started at $2something). They make they're living through tips.

I'm still left with the feeling that the tip wouldn't have been very large.

Tips are a very important part of a waiter or waitresses income.  If the service was good and you don't leave a tip you're an smurf.  Plain and simple.

Guess mudo shouldn't have posted without first tracking down the waiter and verifying the tip.

Pithecanthropus wrote:

Tips are a very important part of a waiter or waitresses income.  If the service was good and you don't leave a tip you're an smurf.  Plain and simple.

I generally tip very well, but if you look around online, waiters/waitresses seem to feel anything less than 30% is you being an smurf. That belief to me seems excessive.

I mainly tip though out of fear that my food will be spit in next time around, and not being white, they're biased against my tipping habits to being with.

Last edited by mo' ron (2008-04-17 9:58 am)

I thought the accepted level was 15% (I usually go 20% myself, the math is easier).

Tipping is expected when you eat out its something 98 percent of us expect to do eating anyplace that has a wait staff if you dont tip then you should not eat anywhere you would be expected to do so. Your not special your not exempt. I have seen people leave those blessing type deals and on two occasions as I was exiting I dropped  a couple bucks on the table and left the blessing the original person had intended as a "tip". I just hate to see people get screwed I have never worked in a job were I ever received tips. So I have no special bias or past experience's I just think its wrong.

I suspect the people leaving tracts aren't doing it in place of a tip - they are just cheap people who happen to also be people who leave tracts everywhere.

Just leaving tracts is actually a very ineffective way of proselytizing - it occasionally works, but really, just leaving tracts is of benefit to the weak - they feel like they are doing something without actually doing something.

Friend to Friend evangelism is much more effective.
Talking to someone you don't know is much more effective.
Helping people in need is much more effective.

spike wrote:

I have been cut by God. I was attempting to buy a book, was clearly at the register before anyone, and this guy in a clerical clothes comes up and blatantly cut me.

Should have told him to "get thee behind me!"