Outback server not tipped by local church for $735 order loses job over Facebook post

[TexasTowelie]

A server at an Outback Steakhouse in Palm Beach Gardens says she was fired on Thursday after posting on social media that she was not tipped for a $735 take-out order placed by Christ Fellowship.

Tamlynn Yoder, 25, of Lake Park, said Christ Fellowship ordered 25 steaks, 25 chickens and 25 potatoes on Wednesday morning at the restaurant on Military Trail near Northlake Boulevard.

“We take the order over the phone, we put the order together, take payment and then take order to the car,” Yoder said. “It’s a lot of work just as much as serving.”

Yoder said a person from Christ Fellowship came to pick up the order and when Yoder put the food in the car, she received no tip. Yoder said because she spent most of her shift preparing the 75-item order for Christ Fellowship, she only made a total of $18 in tips that day on other orders.

Read more: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/new-outback-server-not-tipped-local-church-for-735-order-loses-job-over-facebook-post/1WdSSRd27tTlqYJHmxMOUP/

[democratisphere]

1. When will people learn to keep their lives off of fakebook?

Better yet, unsubscribe your fakebook account and get a private life!

[GWC58]

2. I guess we know where the

donations were spent. 😡😈

[SWBTATTReg]

3. An unfortunate set of circumstances...Outback Steakhouse knew that the waitress put in

a lot of time on this large order, and should have tacked onto the 15% minimum gratuity, for such a large order, BUT they didn't. They knew that something wrong happened...and didn't rectify the situation. They knew!

Per the newspaper article, I solely blame Outback Steakhouse for this travesty of justice.

We have several Outback restaurants around us, have never gone.

In view of their treatment of this waitress, we will never go to an Outback Steakhouse...

[Sherman A1]

4. A couple of thoughts

1). Yes, One's Facebook page should not include rants about your place of employment or customers. It simply is not a career enhancing move.

2). Outback should have most certainly included a gratuity in an order that size, that it wasn't done is a failure on their part and now they have lost a trained employee and the associated costs that are required to replace them. Not good business at all, but unfortunately it has long been considered that employees are disposable.

3). From my experience in the restaurant business Church groups are the absolute worst with which to deal. They are obnoxious to service personnel, beyond cheap and often leave little if anything in the way of a tip. I recall many a religious convention staying at nearby hotels that treated the wait staff where I worked like dirt and you were lucky to get some printed biblical passage for a tip. Religious conventions were simply loathed by the staff and the sooner they left the better. So the Church group is just as much at fault here as any of the other parties, if not much, much more so.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Yes to #3

I worked in a restaurant for several years in the early 90s. Every Sunday lunch, a LARGE group of what appeared to be Penatcostals (women wore skirts, extremely long hair, no makeup) would come in, bark orders, run the servers ragged and then proceed to pay the exact amount with a CHECK. Restaurant policy didn't allow checks, but our awful manager was only too happy to take one from them. Truly awful people.

[Sherman A1]

8. My recollections were of the Southern Baptists

And several decades prior to yours, but they were an obnoxious lot to the waitresses with whom I worked.

[Danascot]

6. They like to pull this douchbaggery

[Sherman A1]

7. Yup

I remember those and other similar crappy ones that they gave the servers.

[Fla Dem]

9. No need to fire her. A reprimand and warning would have sufficed. She deserved the tip.

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