Posted on 08/29/2021 2:08:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A diner at a north Florida restaurant gathered the staff of 10 together to thank them for their hard work before leaving them a $10,000 tip to share
A diner at a north Florida restaurant gathered the staff of 10 together to thank them for their hard work before leaving them a $10,000 tip to share.
It happened last Tuesday night as the man, his wife and son finished their dinner at the Wahoo Seafood Grill, the Gainesville Sun reported.
Shawn Shepherd, who owns Wahoo, told the newspaper he got a call from his employees that night, alerting him to the big tip. His first thought was to be suspicious.
“Check his ID and the name on the back of his credit card,” Shepherd advised the employee who called.
But the restaurant's point-of-sale system approved the transaction. Shepherd said he checked back the next day to make sure the money was still there.
“Watching these guys get their check was almost as good as Christmas morning,” Shepherd told the Sun.
He said he's very thankful to the diner because his employees have been loyal to the restaurant through the pandemic.
Among those benefitting from the big tip was Ashley Green, who was called into work that day. She had recently endured a rough time because her daughter was ill.
“She’s had a hard month, she’s been not able to work. Kid has been in and out of the hospital. It’s been absolutely a really stressful time for her,” Shepherd said.
When the coronavirus pandemic began, Shepherd said he temporarily closed the Wahoo and lost some $30,000 in food.
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Sounds like your Father was your mentor.
Which makes you a very good loving daughter.
Sometimes I forget people I lost that are now gone and I think for second that I want to call them and ask them what they think.
The generation before us would be stunned about today’s world. But, that generation probably thought the world was insane during WWII. So maybe they wouldn’t be so shocked.
Now it’s our turn to tell the stories, and give advice.
I lose the younger crowd when I say things like pay phones and before the internet. LOL
Well, yes. Your grandfather was right.
Tons more disturbing to me is that you were serving in the military but received a below poverty level income. That is absolutely wrong and outrageous.
Perhaps check with the VA; haven’t heard tons of good stories, but it might be worth a shot.
This infuriates me and I’m not even in the military!
That was in the last half of the 1970's. My pay and allowances per year was just over $5,000.00 when the poverty level was just over $12,000.00. That pay disparity was in the news at the time whenever the Defense Budget was discussed but military pay for lower enlisted ranks lagged behind the poverty line for many years. they seemed to get around the disgrace by the fact that single enlisted personnel were housed in barracks and ate at the chow hall so a meager stipend was all they needed. It was my fault that I enlisted in the USAF with a wife to care for.
The VA has no authority over that sort of thing. I have a good SS benefit, a 401k, a corporate pension rolled to an annuity, and a Medicare Advantage plan to augment my Medicare, so I've never had anything to do with the VA.
“I was a waitress, first at IHop, then at a Mexican restaurant in Champaign-Urbana, where I was going to college.”
When we got married my wife was working two jobs. Her day job was keeping vending machines filled at two plants. Her night job was as a waitress at a country restaurant outside of a little town.
When we moved to Richmond,Va, to escape my ex and her pet lawyer, she went to work as a waitress at a 24 hour restaurant called Aunt Sarah’s Pancakes. They had breakfast 24/7.
The Mrs had the get up and go most of the younger people lacked. She was 37 and out working 20 year olds.
Friday and Saturday nights were her big money nights, but not for the obvious reason. When the club’s closed for the night everyone headed to Aunt Sarah’s. Even the gays and drag queens.
She gave the gays and drag queens the same good service she gave everyone else. Soon they were asking for her section. The management ended up giving her a section that was 1/3 of the restaurant because people would rather wait for an opening in her section.
Think what we will of that crowd but they tipped damned good. This was the late 80’s and she would bring home $400-$500 EVERY Friday and Saturday night.
When she quit when we left Richmond the manager said it would take three people to replace her.
I have met few good waitresses in the last few years. But there are some out there.
It's definitely not central Florida or south Florida. It's only a 90 min. drive to the Georgia border.
It's north Florida as far as I'd describe it.
Wow! Your wife sounds like a real dynamo! A good woman; she’s a keeper. :)
Yes, at the night shift at iHop, in a college town, there was big business once the bars closed at 2am. Lots of drunken frat boys. LOL
Sounds like what your wife experienced at Aunt Sarah’s.
“I always put it in the waiter’s hand o that some half hearted table cleaner can’t palm it up.”
We give the cash directly to the waiter, too. And not just because of bus people or other waters could scoop it up. Other customers steal it, too.
An owner of a restaurant we go to said that a group of about six office workers came in for lunch about once a week. After they’d left the restaurant, one of the group would come back in and scoop up the tips her co-workers had left. When the owner mentioned it to someone in the group later on she said they thought it was odd that the thief always would make an excuse that she had left something at the table and had to go back to get it.
She was a real jewel. Unfortunately she passed away in 2016. The wife loved waitressing. She loved working with the public.
She loved making people smile.
Even after she retired she looked out for waitresses. Good service, by her standards, got a nice tip. Sloppy service got a decidedly bad tip.
Once we were at a place and the people behind us complained about the waitress so much the manager comped their meal. My wife went to the manager and told him the truth. The waitress had done nothing wrong and had actually done a good job. The manager just shook his head and and said he believed her because the waitress was one of his best.
Guess the demographic of the complainers.
“Guess the demographic of the complainers.”
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Undoubtedly Amish. LOL! ;)
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