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In reply to the discussion: The Waitress, the Pastor and the Applebee's Meltdown...a perfect internet storm. [View all]VA_Jill
(9,962 posts)83. Ruby Tuesday's CEO
came right out and said they were NOT going to cut hours, and they WOULD provide health insurance. The fact that servers get a lower wage is not their fault, it's legislated by politicians who don't want to raise anyone's minimum wage. But we will continue to patronize Ruby Tuesday. Applebee's....never.
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The Waitress, the Pastor and the Applebee's Meltdown...a perfect internet storm. [View all]
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
OP
It is becoming more difficult to find local owned restaurants but I work at it.
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#28
I am amazed at the number of people who do NOT realize that the Servers earn LESS THEN MINIMUM WAGE
happyslug
Feb 2013
#3
If they don't reach the $7.25 including tips, the employer has to pay it, depending on state law.
Lars39
Feb 2013
#8
Okay. One more time--try to understand what I'm saying...I KNOW the difference--
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
#24
Another point to consider is why a pastor went out to dine in a large party in the first place.
randome
Feb 2013
#43
i've wondered if there isn't another backstory as well -- this female pastor's 'church; i read isn't
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#87
This is how restaurants thrive .. low wages ($2.13 hr) and high expectations for the server.
YOHABLO
Feb 2013
#55
Beautiful! As I listen to my college educated kids struggling to earn livings off
snappyturtle
Feb 2013
#4
As strange as it may sound they make better money serving than at the jobs
snappyturtle
Feb 2013
#61
You are correct, most people don't realize that many of the restaurants make the server
glowing
Feb 2013
#26
"Tipping is supposed to be a bonus..." Sure but it isnt. But that's a good rationalization.
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#30
Would it change your mind to know that Applebees is Southern Baptist and has no
tavalon
Feb 2013
#36
She totally deserved it. She is the one that put it out there. She wrote it on her check.
eilen
Feb 2013
#86
5% one way or the other is not a matter of affordability.It's a social statement to the working poor
libdem4life
Feb 2013
#13
First, it's all over the place. It got on Fox news for heaven's sake, and Applebee's FB--
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
#22
For those of you that are not trying to rationalize stiffing the waitstaff
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#32
Do away with tipping and start paying a fare wage. Everyone feels better about it
Exultant Democracy
Feb 2013
#46
My first response was why is a PASTOR ashamed of people knowing what she wrote on that ticket?
patrice
Feb 2013
#51
Ergo, how many other workers in Cupcake Land lose their jobs because of CHURCHES????
patrice
Feb 2013
#52
She is the pastor of a 15 member congregation. Doesn't sound all too much successful.
olegramps
Feb 2013
#59
because you've surveyed them all? i can state with personal knowledge that pastors of
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#88
Applebee's previously went very public against Obamacare. Firing waitress fits pattern. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#67
It seems that all of these chain restaurants are run by teabag republicans
workinclasszero
Feb 2013
#70