That is so not true. See post number seven for the facts
statement from the restaurant: “The tip was tried multiple times by management, by Emily, by the owner and would not post. It was INVALID. The gentlemen called and was told the tip would not take we asked him to come back to the restaurant to pay Emily in cash or check and he said ok and hung up. . . “
statement from Emily Bauer:
“So turns out the guy who left me the tip , his cred card was fraud. I have seen proof of this. I just got done speaking with the owner of my job, and he is going to grant me the $2,000 as a Christmas gift. I appreciate everyone who was trying to help me find the man that left it to me but unfortunately it was not true, which is sad and I hope that never happens to anyone because it is not a good feeling. One more time to clarify, I did NOT contact the news to get my job bad recognition nor to have them receive hate phone calls and threats. That is not okay! Other than this incident I love my job and I stated that multiple times. The owner is kind enough to give it to me even though it was not their mess up.”
statement from FoxNews on their original story:
“we didn’t add that part part because it would ruin the click-bait headline we wanted to use for the story”
I suspect post 7 is pretty much what happened as I can believe a credit card company would balk at paying a $2000 tip without some investigation.
Once I ate at a restaurant in Tampa and a couple of days later I got a call from VISA Security. They wanted to know if I had bought $1000 worth of stereo equipment in New York City the day after eating at the Tampa restaurant. I said no. They said they didn't think so and sent a new card and I was never charged the $1000. I have no idea whether or not they caught the person(s) who did this.
I do like these machines they have at the tables these days because you don't have to give your card to a server who takes it to a back room out of your site.