How One Worker’s Ordinary Tuesday Just Ended With a Life-Changing Bonus

Liz Wiest

20 minutes ago

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Working in a restaurant is one of the most unpredictable jobs a person can have.

How would you react if you got tipped way over 100% on a tab? One server recently shared their stroke of good fortune with Reddit. Here’s what happened.

Got tipped $1,000 company made me wait 3 months in case of “chargeback”

I am a overnight server at a breakfast place, one day a guy walks in a midnight and asks for a table for 1 so I sit him and get his drink which was a Pepsi.

He tells me he is ready to order and he orders an appetizer sampler as a appetizer and a omelette with pancakes and a burrito with pancakes and a extra side of hash browns.

This sounds like a man on a mission.

Keep in mind he is a very skinny guy weighs no more than 150 pounds.

In my head I think theres no way he is going to eat all of this, so we talk for a few.

I put his order in, I bring him his food and a refill.

This must have been a wild shift.

15 minutes go by and I swear he is done with everything not a crumb left and me and my manager are in disbelief.

I check him out and tell him have a great night and go talk to my coworkers and he comes up to us and asks us if we split the tips or does it all go to me and I tell him it all goes to me and he turns around and walks away.

I go look at the check and it’s a $1,000 tip on a $40 order and my manager and I just look at each other stunned for 50 seconds.

He must have thought he was being pranked.

I then say “This is a joke right?”.

So he runs to the guys car and asks him “is this serious?”.

And the guy says “Yes I have a really good job and what is the point in having a lot of money if you can’t share it with others and bring happiness to someone” and drove off.

That man is a part of a dying breed.

My shift manager then calls my GM and my GM tells me I have to wait 3 months to get the tip in case the customer calls his bank and disputes the transaction.