Posted on 05/12/2019 3:57:24 PM PDT by Kenny Bania
When a retired New York woman left her $424,000 cashier’s check at a local pizzeria, she said she felt her “world just collapsed." That is, until an unlikely hero came to save the day: the very waiter she burned with no tip and a sassy note.
After looking at a condo she hoped to buy, Karen Vinacour, her daughter and a real estate broker went to the historic Patsy’s Pizzeria in Manhattan to grab a slice of their signature brick-oven pizza — the same pizza enjoyed by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Al Pacino and even Justin Bieber. Tucked in a white envelope was a cashier’s check with the money she received from selling her last apartment. Vinacour, 79, planned to use the funds to put a down payment on what she hoped would be her brand new home.
That day, Armando Markaj, a pre-med student working his way through school, was assigned to their table. As the group enjoyed their lunch on the busy Saturday afternoon, the mother-daughter pair pointed out to Markaj that, out of all the framed photos of the owners with affluent customers on the wall, there seemed to be very few women.
“Maybe women don’t eat a lot of pizza?” Vinacour recalled Markaj replying.
Vinacour and her daughter were not amused, or pleased, with Markaj’s response.
“Well, my daughter’s kind of feisty and she didn’t like that,” Vinacour told the New York Daily News. Instead of leaving behind a decent tip, the pair left a note that read, “I guess women don’t tip either.”
Unbeknownst to Vinacour, something else was left at the table as well: her half-million-dollar Citibank check.
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Put her picture in the Men’s room.
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The owners would not be that cruel ..... to the male customers.
Doubt it seriously. So much doubling down on completely indefensible behavior.
Karma
The women made no sense with their snotty attitude toward the waiter. They can’t be that stupid to think the mere waiter has anything to do with whatever pictures are hanging on the shop’s wall! The waiter’s answer was obviously meant to not blame anyone for something he didn’t know the real answer to. The women’s reaction was like shooting the messenger.
The woman did not deserve to get her check back, even if I think the waiter and the shop owner did do the right thing.
Nasty feminist bitch
That's how "trickle down" works. 😃
-PJ
You went to Patsys in my day....80s or Rao’s for fancier Italian in Harlem food
Anything above east 96 st was injun country back then
It was an adventure and the owners would let a cab know there was a fare ready when you finished
Old italian East Harlem....gentrified now all the way to morningside Park....crazy....thst was a super deadly area in my day
Woody Allen and mob guys too liked Patsys and Rao
Al Pacino too
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