Witness to your waitress ???!!!

[pinetree]

Good points.. they are kind of trapped, aren't they!

My hubby does the same thing with our bass boat.. He offers to take peopleout fishing.. and then talks about the wonderful day & nature.. & how God made all things..

So they listen... are they gonna jump out of the boat & swim??

hehe lol lol you get the post so far....

does he hunt to,like me.. a rifle does wonders to convince people they are in sin...

 

[DianeL]

Twice for a year each time I worked two jobs, 7 days a week, one in an office, the other in a restaurant, and yes, I really had to get a good sleep on Sat nite for the running around I knew I would do Sun.

Honestly, yes, they were stingy, not rude though.

This brought to my mind a group that came in every Sunday for lunch and in this group was a little grey haired doll, she's couldn't have been over 5ft, sweet as a button, and she would always leave 10 cents next to her coffee cup, well, I just had to smile.

This never changed how I served them though and I worked other shifts in the restaurant as well to make up

BTW, I bought my vehicles cash doing this and why I did it (I was younger then -)

 

[Faulty]

Okay so I have been watching alot lately because I heard something that really bummed me out.

Alot of Waitresses HATE to work on Sundays because they say that the Christians patrons are the WORST !!!!!

They are demanding, rude and do not tip well................

When I heard this a few weeks ago I started watching........my family goes OUT to eat almost EVERY Sunday and where I live every restaraunt is PACKED out on Sundays with people who obviously just left church.

Needless to say - the waitress that told us this was pretty well on the mark.

The sad part is that she said - rude people come in EVERYDAY but no one thinks much about it - but on SUNDAY they are not just rude people.......they are RUDE CHRISTIANS

This really opened my eyes so I have been being alot more conciencious about my families behaviour. Which I can say my dad ALMOST ALWAYS invites our waitress to his church and my family tips pretty good (although we have collectively decided to bump that up as well........

Anyways to make a long story short if you go out to eat on Sundays I challenge you to start being more aware and to make other people aware of how waitresses feel about Christians as a whole. Maybe we can change things a bit...................

Interesting. I worked almost nine years as a line cook for Bob Evans and Country Kitchen restaurants, and a dozen others, during the Sunday morning rushes. I honestly can't recall ever hearing a waitress talk about 'those Christians' either for good or bad.

 

[JimB]

On the reverse side of our church business cards we have the words “This is our simple way of saying that God loves you.” We ask our members to leave the card with a minimum 15% tip at restaurants and ask them to kick in an extra dollar or two as an extra “offering” for an already under-paid waiter/waitress and to treat their probably over-hassled “servant” with the same respect and dignity they would want to be treated.

~Jim

Fools rush in - and get all the best seats.​

 

[WarEagle]

From the 60's through the late nineties, my family owned two restaurants at the Jersey Shore. Getting waitresses (sorry, "waitstaff") to work on Sundays was like pulling teeth. It wasn't because the girls wanted the weekend off, but because they knew that most of the crowd would be churchfolk and that they wouldn't make any money.

Yes, Christians have that reputation and unfortunately, it's true.

Also, don't send tracts in with your bills. The machines that process your payment are calibrated to accept only the thickness of the envelope and, the stub, and the check. When you put a tract in the envelope, it increases the thickness beyond what the machine is calibrated to handle. This causes the machine to jam and gets the operator in trouble, because he has a quota to meet and this prevents him from meeting his quota and gets him in trouble.

That's not a good way to make someone receptive to the Gospel.

If this happens enough, then the machine has to go down for an hour or more to be recalibrated altogether.

And that's why you should always tip your waitress.

 

[dmhforJesus]

Interesting. I worked almost nine years as a line cook for Bob Evans and Country Kitchen restaurants, and a dozen others, during the Sunday morning rushes. I honestly can't recall ever hearing a waitress talk about 'those Christians' either for good or bad.

Praise God ! It is good to know that somewhere there were Christians who were not acting in this fashion. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the general consensus.................but Praise the Lord for the few !!

 

[JimB]

From the 60's through the late nineties, my family owned two restaurants at the Jersey Shore. Getting waitresses (sorry, "waitstaff") to work on Sundays was like pulling teeth. It wasn't because the girls wanted the weekend off, but because they knew that most of the crowd would be churchfolk and that they wouldn't make any money.

Yes, Christians have that reputation and unfortunately, it's true.

Also, don't send tracts in with your bills. The machines that process your payment are calibrated to accept only the thickness of the envelope and, the stub, and the check. When you put a tract in the envelope, it increases the thickness beyond what the machine is calibrated to handle. This causes the machine to jam and gets the operator in trouble, because he has a quota to meet and this prevents him from meeting his quota and gets him in trouble.

That's not a good way to make someone receptive to the Gospel.

If this happens enough, then the machine has to go down for an hour or more to be recalibrated altogether.

And that's why you should always tip your waitress.

I agree. A tract with a less-than-standard tip sends the exact opposite message to its intended target.

But what’s all this about “envelopes”? Do “waitstaff” in your city actually leave tip envelopes at the customers’ tables? That could send a wrong message to your patrons.

~Jim

Fools rush in - and get all the best seats.​

 

[WarEagle]

I agree. A tract with a less-than-standard tip sends the exact opposite message to its intended target.

But what’s all this about “envelopes”? Do “waitstaff” in your city actually leave tip envelopes at the customers’ tables? That could send a wrong message to your patrons.

~Jim

Fools rush in - and get all the best seats.​

No, but threads like this always get around to stuffing tracts in your credit card or utility payments and I didn't want to wait.

 

[he4rty]

Okay so I have been watching alot lately because I heard something that really bummed me out.

Alot of Waitresses HATE to work on Sundays because they say that the Christians patrons are the WORST !!!!!

They are demanding, rude and do not tip well................

When I heard this a few weeks ago I started watching........my family goes OUT to eat almost EVERY Sunday and where I live every restaraunt is PACKED out on Sundays with people who obviously just left church.

Needless to say - the waitress that told us this was pretty well on the mark.

The sad part is that she said - rude people come in EVERYDAY but no one thinks much about it - but on SUNDAY they are not just rude people.......they are RUDE CHRISTIANS

This really opened my eyes so I have been being alot more conciencious about my families behaviour. Which I can say my dad ALMOST ALWAYS invites our waitress to his church and my family tips pretty good (although we have collectively decided to bump that up as well........

Anyways to make a long story short if you go out to eat on Sundays I challenge you to start being more aware and to make other people aware of how waitresses feel about Christians as a whole. Maybe we can change things a bit...................

Ok so not read all the thread, but is there not some kind of Irony here, witness to your waitress on Sunday after church, how are they going to be able to go to church if your all out eating after service on a Sunday.
Surely a better witness would be to stop eating out on a Sunday and maybe these places would have no option but to close due to lack of revenue, thus giving people weekend time off, to spend with there families.

 

[dmhforJesus]

Ok so not read all the thread, but is there not some kind of Irony here, witness to your waitress on Sunday after church, how are they going to be able to go to church if your all out eating after service on a Sunday.
Surely a better witness would be to stop eating out on a Sunday and maybe these places would have no option but to close due to lack of revenue, thus giving people weekend time off, to spend with there families.

Definately something to ponder brother. Good post.

 

[Tamara224]

Ok so not read all the thread, but is there not some kind of Irony here, witness to your waitress on Sunday after church, how are they going to be able to go to church if your all out eating after service on a Sunday.
Surely a better witness would be to stop eating out on a Sunday and maybe these places would have no option but to close due to lack of revenue, thus giving people weekend time off, to spend with there families.

So, put them out of a job so they can go to church instead of feed their families?

 

[BenAdam]

Ah, the glories of the 3 minute witness.

 

[BenAdam]

Ah, the glories of the 3 minute witness.

It was so poignant I had to say it twice.

 

[He put me back together]

"So, would you like to come to our church tonight?"

"Um, I have to work."

"Why do you feel obligated to work on Sunday?"

"Perhaps for the same reason you feel obligated to come here and make me work on Sunday."

 

[Tamara224]

"So, would you like to come to our church tonight?"

"Um, I have to work."

"Why do you feel obligated to work on Sunday?"

"Perhaps for the same reason you feel obligated to come here and make me work on Sunday."

Um... aren't you assuming that if Christians didn't go out to eat on Sunday, no one else would? What about all the non Christians?

And don't most Churches have Wednesday night church still? And Saturday night?

 

[DianeL]

While I worked on Sundays, mostly non-christians for breakfast 8-11, then christians for lunch ....... I don't know how I remember this? - laugh

oops, kinda sounds like I had Christians for lunch ........and non-christians for breakfast..........

 

[merin]

I am manager for a restaurant and its not the Christian we hate to see coming in, its the usaully the ones who make sure you know they are Christians!!! Usaully the Pentecostal people who are all dressed up and won't stop inviting you to go to church at their church. They do not even ask if you go first they just invite you.
If you want to witness to your watress then just be nice and generous. Dont invite them to your church!!!! LOL. Church is for Christians. Show them the love of God by getting to know them and their concerns. Pray for them and check back with them.
I was. Waiter for years and I have served some very nice people who all turned out to be Christians but who I had to over hear THM talking about god or I came out and asked them! But the worst were the people who obviouslly were Christians!!!

 

[pinetree]

While I worked on Sundays, mostly non-christians for breakfast 8-11, then christians for lunch ....... I don't know how I remember this? - laugh

oops, kinda sounds like I had Christians for lunch ........and non-christians for breakfast..........

sorry sis..but your coming off my friends list,if your into canabilism..

 

[dmhforJesus]

I am manager for a restaurant and its not the Christian we hate to see coming in, its the usaully the ones who make sure you know they are Christians!!! Usaully the Pentecostal people who are all dressed up and won't stop inviting you to go to church at their church. They do not even ask if you go first they just invite you.
If you want to witness to your watress then just be nice and generous. Dont invite them to your church!!!! LOL. Church is for Christians. Show them the love of God by getting to know them and their concerns. Pray for them and check back with them.
I was. Waiter for years and I have served some very nice people who all turned out to be Christians but who I had to over hear THM talking about god or I came out and asked them! But the worst were the people who obviouslly were Christians!!!

I am just curious......how do you know they are Pentecostal?

I think church is for everybody.....................and God please let it be OBVIOUS that I am a Christian

 

[Mark2010]

and God please let it be OBVIOUS that I am a Christian

Of that there would be little doubt.