It’s Because I’m Holy: Customer Scrimps On Restaurant’s Requested Tip Because He “Gives God Ten Per Cent”

This is how you could make headlines by scribbling on a receipt…

This customer thinks claiming he is a man of God absolves him of having to leave a tip for the restaurant staff like everybody else.

The photo, posted on Reddit, shows a receipt of $34.93 with an automatic gratuity of 18 per cent included. This adds up as $6.29.

But the diner scribbled out that tip and instead wrote, “I give God 10 per cent. Why do you get 18”. He added the word “pastor” above his signature.

And to add salt to the wound, instead of leaving the tip, he wrote a big zero next to the request.

In the comments on the post, the person who submitted the image explains that this was just a portion of the total bill for a table of 20, which means the 18 per cent tip is automatically put on the bill.

“Parties up to eight at my work may tip whatever they’d like,” the waiter explained, “but larger parties receive an automatic gratuity. It’s in the computer, it’s not something I do.”

The auto-gratuity policy is also listed on the menu.

In total, the group spent more than $200 before the tax and tip were added, says the server. The waiter wrote, “They had no problem with my service, and told me I was great. They just didn’t want to pay when the time came.”

UPDATE: The waitress in question has been fired from Applebee's.