15%? 20%? 1000%???
Posted on by Kolbe
I fancy myself as a good tipper. I typically do at least 20% on any given meal. Some people, though, put what I consider a good tip to shame. For example, in Raleigh, NC a man at a Waffle House tipped his waitress $1,000!!!! He actually wrote the tip in as $1,500 and told the waitress to give $500 to a woman who looked blue sitting by herself. So let’s recap so far: a man left a $1,500 tip to be shared between a random patron of the restaurant and the waitress (a single mother, I should add). The man slipped away into the night not looking for any type of recognition for this charitable act. But a good deed never goes unnoticed. In this instance, it was the Waffle House management who noticed and mandated that the waitress return the tip she was given. $1,000 can make a HUGE difference to a single person trying to raise a kid, and Waffle House decided that with a tip that big they risk the man coming back and demanding his money back due to a “mistake.” As lame as this sounds, the story does have a happy ending. After the generous tipper was contacted about the dilemma, he instead wrote a personal check to the waitress for her $1,000 tip that was meant for her.