Posted on 03/27/2020 1:05:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Miami (AFP)
A customer left a $10,000 tip to be divided among the employees of a Florida restaurant, a day before it was forced to close because of the coronavirus outbreak, the owner said.
Ross Edlund, the owner of Skillets in Naples, Florida, said on the restaurant's Facebook page on Thursday that the gesture shows there are still "truly fantastic people in the world."
"We have an amazing Skillets family that extends to our guests as well," Edlund said. "We couldn't be happier to be a part of a community where this type of generosity exists."
Edlund told the local newspaper, the Naples Daily News, that the customer handed $10,000 in cash to the manager of the restaurant last week, a day before the state's governor ordered the closure.
"We don't know who he was yet," he said. "I'm trying to figure it out.
"It's funny because we have regulars who have been coming in forever, and they're our friends but we don't always know their names," he said.
"We know their faces, their orders, their favorite tables, but we don't know exactly who they are."
Edlund said the $10,000 was evenly split among the restaurant's 20 employees with each receiving $500.
Edlund owns a total of 10 Skillets restaurants and he told the newspaper that he has had to lay off 90 percent of his 200 employees.
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Ten to one it’s an evil white, Christian, conservative who votes straight Republican
Yep, in Naples, very likely.
Yet the Clintons order pizza for a hospital and everyone needs to know.
In Naples?
Probably a conservative paesano who moved there after decades in the rackets up here :)
BTW, not that it makes them any better people but all the wiseguys I know are conservative.
They’re even tough on crime...some crimes lol
A deal breaker...
I sincerely hope that this business family can survive this forced hiatus! Just remember that, to the LEFT, the owner is someone who, according to Sen Warren & Pres Obama; “You didn’t build this!”
May they all, the Skillet Restaurant Family, be blessed and kept whole and healthy, by the Grace of Almighty God.
Equally, while I am in this lifting mind, I pray for my family, my friends, my fellow FReepers, my beloved country of the United States of America and the whole world. May we come through this crisis closer to God and the things that really matter! Amen!
That’s pretty damn nice.
How amazing!!! Humans can be pretty cool.
Amen!
You left out CCW/CHL Holder or as some would say: Pistol packing Domestic Confederate.
It was the owner ; )
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