Waiter Returns $424,000 Check To Customer Who Didn’t Leave A Tip

Yahoo Lifestyle ^ | May 10, 2019 | Paulina Cachero

[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.

[Sequoyah101]

It ain’t that good.

[Vermont Lt]

She sounds like a real piece of work. If you are sitting at the table and you are waited on...the waiter gets a tip.

And lady, the waiter doesn’t do the decor. How stupid can you be?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Dr. Armando seems like s super-nice guy. Maybe he could give her a heart.

[golux]

“Liberals” and Canadians are the worst tippers.
It’s the self-righteous ones that screw you.

[luvbach1]

Tip for a slice?

Some "all you want to eat" places have staff hawking for tips for clearing away your dish and glass.

[TigersEye]

LOL

[Osage Orange]

Here's 7 that were rated in N.Y.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxkYhYSErE

[lastchance]

Exactly.

[Kenny Bania]

Was just thinking the same thing....waiter should have booted them out the door like Sal.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbA1YOueC_A

[Tijeras_Slim]

Put her picture in the Men’s room.

[NorthMountain]

out of all the framed photos of the owners with affluent customers on the wall, there seemed to be very few women.

There are a whole lot of four and five letter words to describe that female.

[Tijeras_Slim]

just burns my boobies.

That's a new on on me, and I've been around the block. LOL

[SunkenCiv]

Well put.

[EdnaMode]

Hope she learned something.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Send out a few nigerian emails!

[Bommer]

She’s in NY. find a republican ther

[CaptainK]

I don't think the waiter would have expected a tip for a few slices. What he didn't need was the snotty note on the bill from the mother/daughter bitch tag team.

[fungoking]

Some of you are forgetting how liberals view giving. They define compassion by their willingness to give away other people's money, not their own.

[wally_bert]

Never been in the restaurant biz but I know about bottle feeding calves.