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Waiter Returns $424,000 Check To Customer Who Didn’t Leave A Tip
Yahoo Lifestyle ^ | May 10, 2019 | Paulina Cachero

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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To: wally_bert

I doubt it. Her girl-powered reality-distortion field was left intact. She now has believes that having her check returned was her due, in part to being an outspoken woman.


41 posted on 05/12/2019 4:31:58 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: wally_bert

Well said.


42 posted on 05/12/2019 4:33:01 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kenny Bania

Her Facebook likes:

Sen Cory Booker
Expose Trump
Americans Against The Republican Party
Sen Bernie Sanders
Congressman Joe Kennedy III
Al Jazeera - English
The New York Times

Of course she didn’t tip. - sigh


43 posted on 05/12/2019 4:33:26 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Kenny Bania
Why was she asking the waiter about how many women were on the wall? She should have taken it up with the owner. What a BITCH.

And she offered to tip him. She should have cut him a 3 figured check.

44 posted on 05/12/2019 4:33:29 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: Kenny Bania

Once again, aaaaaand as we’ve always said,

“No good deed goes unpunished”.


45 posted on 05/12/2019 4:33:31 PM PDT by elcid1970 (No matter how bad things get, it can only be worse in New Jersey!)
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To: dfwgator

yep - see my post #43


46 posted on 05/12/2019 4:34:12 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: A_perfect_lady

“Oh, my! Thank you so much! I guess you earned your four bucks after all.”

“Nah, that’s okay. I’ll be on my way.”


48 posted on 05/12/2019 4:36:00 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dfwgator
She looks like a typical Democrat.

The witch and her daughter stiffed him because he wasn't sufficiently "woke" (re: the pictures to teh wimminz on the wall), so yeah, definitely a Democrat....

49 posted on 05/12/2019 4:36:48 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Kenny Bania

Hope her pic is posted in the center of a dart board.....


50 posted on 05/12/2019 4:37:37 PM PDT by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: Kenny Bania

Straight out of “Do The Right Thing” where they burn the pizza joint, because there weren’t enough pictures of black people on the wall.


51 posted on 05/12/2019 4:38:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SkyDancer

tear it up and cause the bitch grief just as she I am sure caused many


52 posted on 05/12/2019 4:38:39 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: Kenny Bania

Caption: “This woman is a stupid cheapskate and we have the facts to prove it. In court, if necessary.”


53 posted on 05/12/2019 4:39:51 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kenny Bania

Someone not tipping you, and you returning a huge sum of found money, for an adult with any moral compass anyway, should be two completely separate issues.

Given it were two feminists and aggressive SJWs, I would have thought twice though, but probably still would have returned their check.


54 posted on 05/12/2019 4:40:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: onona

This cheap Lib looks like she is more interested in quantity of food,
not quality of food.


55 posted on 05/12/2019 4:42:01 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Oh, no. Of course not. Under the coming socialism, that’ll be our job.

“Tips” for everyone.


56 posted on 05/12/2019 4:43:48 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: onona

Maybe. But the service is impeccable.


57 posted on 05/12/2019 4:44:37 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kenny Bania

“Here, young man. Here is the dollar and seventeen cents I didn’t leave you before and thank you for being honest and returning my $424,000 check.”

The righteousness that bitch felt when she stood up for ALL WOMEN by stiffing a college student working his way through school FOR SOMETHING HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH just burns my boobies.

All of America now knows the POS she is and the gentleman he is.

Totally worth getting stiffed and good on his for refusing her pennies - ‘cause you know she wasn’t going to give him a just reward.


58 posted on 05/12/2019 4:44:56 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: ping jockey

Wow!!!! Amazing!!!! Thank you for sharing that! My husband grew up on a farm and they also had a restaurant - he had a similar life.

People don’t now how good they have it now, do they?


59 posted on 05/12/2019 4:47:17 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Kenny Bania

Classless women.

I don’t always get great service but I tip well almost all the time. There is often a lot more going on than what we see. The waiter doesn’t control everything that happens on a restaurant.


60 posted on 05/12/2019 4:48:48 PM PDT by boycott
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