For a short time I worked at Maggiano’s at the Grove in Los Angeles. So one night Jay Leno get’s seated in my section. He’s having dinner with his wife. After they have desert my manager comes up to me and and asked me how much Leno’s tab was, I told him about $100.00 with drinks. He say’s I’m gonna help you make some extra money tonight, I’m gonna comp his entire tab. Didn’t Leno leave me a $20.00 tip. Here’s a guy who was making over $25 million a year, has his entire meal and drinks were comped and leaves a $20.00 tip. The manager gave me a $50.00 gift card to help ease the pain.
wow that’s shameful. I always try and leave a really good tip because I waited tables for years in all kinds of places. 2 best tips for least amount of work - from Cleavon Little who gave me $20 for bringing him a ginger ale, and a mafioso named Lefty who tipped me $20 for a cup of espresso. LOL! worst tip by a celeb other than Ms Flack- Judd Hirsch, who left a couple dollars and dumped his pocket change (including Canadian money) after a lunch that was probably in the $50 range (late 1970’s).