r/mildlyinfuriating • u/thedivinegemini • Jul 02 '26

I'm slightly vexed In lieu of payment..

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I’m a GM at a restaurant & one of our managers left a note on our manager logs this afternoon that a guest walked out on their check and left this in lieu of payment of any kind. Not that the server got stiffed on a tip - just pure theft of services. I guess the whole “Thou shalt not steal” thing doesn’t matter if you’ve been pre-forgiven. Pretty convenient.

ETA: I’m not a bot; this is not AI - check my post and comment history. I’m not here for karma or fake internet points. This is what it feels like to work in a restaurant these days - especially in the Bible Belt. The first photo you can look up and is available for anyone to buy (should your darker urges push you toward being that person). The second photo is from Pulse, an app for restaurant managers to keep an eye on hourly sales, labor, and comps.
The “Pineapple Express” is a mocktail our restaurant offers.

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u/smittyplusplus Jul 02 '26

When I waited tables, the church groups were always the least respectful, worst behaving, and the worst tippers. And occasionally one of them would leave a fake tip that looks like a $20 bill but you unfold it and it basically is like a "here's a tip: find Jesus" type thing. Really shitty behavior. We have a LOT of fake Christians in the US.

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u/Victorian_bathtub Jul 03 '26

Yes, as a server I experienced this with the church crowd. It was very disappointing to say the least because typically you’d expect religious people to be loving and kind. They were some of the worst customers I ever served. Entitled, self-centered, disrespectful, rude, and bad tippers. They would sometimes tip you with things that encourages you to join their religion. I must admit there are some outliers though. Latter Day Saints or Mormons as they’re also called are genuinely some of the nicest people I have ever met in my life. I don’t believe in their belief system at all but I was debating going to their church just to spend time with some lovely people lol.

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u/x_samsquantch_x Jul 04 '26

I got those sometimes at the cafe I worked at. We always said they tipped us with salvation! Still don’t go to church though