--- title: Sundays Are The Worst Website Started by Tennessee Pastor description: Restaurant staffers can now anonymously vent about rude Sunday churchgoers on this website started by a Tenn. pastor. canonical: https://time.com/18977/church-pastor-starts-a-tip-shaming-website/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman Staff Writer Mar 11, 2014 1:30 PM UTC Chad Roberts, Lead Pastor at Preaching Christ Church in Kingsport, Tennessee, has started [SundaysAreTheWorst.com](http://www.sundaysaretheworst.com/), a website where restaurant staffers can anonymously post stories about the rude Christian patrons who flock to their restaurants after Sunday services, The [New York _Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/tennessee-church-christians-horrible-tippers-article-1.1715155) reports via [The Kingsport _Times-News_](http://www.timesnews.net/article/9073971/kingsport-church-launches-website-for-servers-to-vent-about-sunday-church-crowd). So far, most of the stories complain about people who do not leave enough tip, but do leave pamphlets about the Bible and finding Jesus. “I had customers say something rude about the fact that I was working on the Lord’s day and not in church,” [according to](http://sundaysaretheworst.com/stories/?p=242) another story by a staffer who claims he or she cannot afford to take Sundays off from work. Roberts was inspired to start the website after reading about the St. Louis pastor Alois Bell, who [wrote](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/applebee-server-fired-posting-receipt-disgruntled-customer-reddit-article-1.1252627) “I give God ten percent, why do you get 18?” in response to the automatic gratuity that was added to her receipt at a local Applebees. --- > “” --- (h/t [Jezebel](http://jezebel.com/pastor-starts-website-for-waiters-to-dish-on-the-church-1540453771)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/18977/church-pastor-starts-a-tip-shaming-website/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/18977/church-pastor-starts-a-tip-shaming-website/"},"headline":"Church Pastor Starts a \"Tip-Shaming\" Website","datePublished":"2014-03-11T13:30:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:39.536Z","description":"Speaking of what goes around, comes around...","url":"https://time.com/18977/church-pastor-starts-a-tip-shaming-website/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Religion","faith"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63bc2d9f2eff51ea/698684ccadae447e49541e48/screen-shot-2014-03-10-at-4-20-31-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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