Search

“Is this real?!”: Melbourne waitress receives eyewatering tip

A young waitress in Melbourne was brought to tears after a customer left an incredibly generous tip. The customer was fixing up the bill after his meal when he punched in an extra $10,000 into the EFTPOS machine at the Italian Restaurant Gilson in Melbourne’s South Yarra. The waitress and student, Lauren, told <a href="https://7news.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7NEWS</a> she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I made them say the number out loud, because I thought, what if I have just gotten too excited and I’ve stupidly read an extra zero, or something like that.” “I keep going over it again and again in my head. The actual experience of it happening, second by second, was surreal and amazing.” She added. Lauren wasn’t certain if she was even allowed to accept such a large sum. Tips that the workers receive are typically shared between the staff, but the generous diner insisted that $7,000 go directly to Lauren and the $3,000 be distributed among the remaining staff. According to 7NEWS, the tipper is a young, self-made cryptocurrency businessman who owns more than $120 million of property in Toorak. “I am just extremely grateful, to know that they thought that much of my service is amazing,” Lauren said. A fellow Gilson waitress, Charlotte Crow, told 7NEWS, “She came up to me crying, she was like ‘is this real? Was it a mistake, what do I do?’” While Crow teased that she should have paid more attention to Lauren’s table, she said Lauren “is a really hard worker,” adding, “she deserves it.” Other colleagues agreed, suggesting Lauren use the money to go on a well-earned vacation. “I’m going to be honest, I’ve never been overseas, so the first thing that everyone was saying to me was to go on a holiday,” Lauren said. “That money is just going to help, a lot.” Image credit: Instagram

Money & Banking

Waitress SACKED after receiving $6000 tip

After receiving a hefty tip of $USD 4400 ($AUD 6100), a US waitress has been fired after the restaurant she worked for demanded she share it with the rest of the staff. Ryan Brandt was one of two employees serving a party of more than 40 people at the Oven and Tap in Bentonville, Arkansas. The pair received the tip through a “$100 Dinner Club” organised by Grant Wise, the owner of a local real estate company, where each person dining would contribute a $100 tip ($AUD 139). Wise, who came up with the idea during the COVID-19 pandemic, told <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.ksn.com/top-stories/arkansas-restaurant-employee-terminated-after-4400-tip/" target="_blank">KNWA</a> that he called the restaurant ahead of their booking to confirm that servers don’t share tips. He said the gesture was meant to be “an effort to bless the servers who waited on our party that night”. “I’m so sorry to interrupt everyone’s dinner, this will only take 60 seconds,” Wise <a rel="noopener" href="https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/human-interest/arkansas-waitress-who-was-tipped-4400-is-fired-after-oven-and-tap-restaurant-makes-devastating-demand--c-4924128" target="_blank">said</a> in footage shared on Instagram. <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CXRaJzdAsUi/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CXRaJzdAsUi/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Grant Wise (@likegrantwise)</a> </div> </blockquote> “We have a table full of absolutely amazing people from all over the country who have travelled here, and tonight we’re hosting a $US100 Dinner Club. “Everyone at this table has contributed or tipped $US100 for you and for the other waitress who unfortunately had to go home because she’s not feeling well. “And then we put it out to our social media channels, and then we actually had a bit more money sent in, so we are tipping a total of $USD 4400 for you to split with the other girl who took care of us.” Brandt was visibly in tears after Wise’s announcement. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7846309/waitress.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/38d49e243e5746f8926c3ccd39761bed" /> Image: @likegrantwise (Instagram) But, the huge act of kindness quickly went sour. “I was told that I was going to be giving my cash over to my shift manager, and I would be taking home 20 percent,” Brandt explained. She said that sharing tips has never happened during the three-and-a-half years she has worked at the restaurant. With plans to use the funds to help pay off her student loans, Brandt said she was “devastated” after being told she would take home a fraction of the total amount. Wise said the intention of his tip wasn’t for it to be shared with those who didn’t serve his party. After asking the restaurant to return the tip, he gave Brandt the cash outside instead. However, Brandt said she was soon fired from her job and placed in a financially precarious situation. “It was devastating,” Brandt said. “I borrowed a significant amount for student loans. Most of them were turned off because of the pandemic but they’re turning back on in January and that’s a harsh reality.” Just a few days later, the Arkansas businessman discovered that Brandt had been fired for “violating” the restaurant’s rules. “I’m so saddened to hear that the girl we tipped the other night at our $100 Dinner Club has been fired from her job,” Wise later wrote on Instagram. “I don’t understand why this would happen to what seems like such a sweet and kind-hearted woman. Nevertheless, I’m committed to showing her that there are great people in the world that will do good when they can!” <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXMODf2A2yW/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXMODf2A2yW/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Grant Wise (@likegrantwise)</a> </div> </blockquote> Wise announced that he had set up a <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/Waitress-Fired-after-100-Dinner-Club?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer" target="_blank">GoFundMe</a> for Brandt, telling followers: “I hope that we can help this girl stay on top, and not let something like this get her down.” Just two days after starting the fundraiser, Wise shut it down after it exceeded $USD 8700 ($AUD 12,100) in donations. “Thank you all so much for showing Ryan the love and support you have,” he wrote in an update. “We will be closing down the campaign since we’ve exceeded the goal here. Wise also shared that Brandt had been offered a new job at another local restaurant, and began working there the night before. Image: GoFundMe

Money & Banking

Waitress receives $2k after group refuses to tip

<div class="post_body_wrapper"> <div class="post_body"> <div class="body_text redactor-styles redactor-in"> A waitress has received over $2,000 from her local community after a group who she served refused to tip in protest about the restaurants COVID-19 policies. Glenbrook Brewery in New Jersey currently has a 90-minute time limit for dining in customers which adheres to the state's COVID-19 rules. The currently policy requires indoor dining to operate at 50 per cent capacity as well as parties or of eight or less dining and all tables being six feet apart. One table didn't like the new rules and refused to tip after their $100 meal, deciding to leave a snarky reply on the receipt instead. "I'm sorry the server gets screwed on this. Don't kick paying customers out after 90 minutes," the receipt reads. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7840656/receipt-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/74d2f6c4cc1840d682bc849c8c699dad" /> The waitress, Beth, told <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/new-jersey-restaurant-almost-2g-covid-rules" target="_blank">Fox News</a> said the table "fought back" when she told them their 90-minutes was almost up, asking later to speak to the manager, after they paid, which is when she noticed the note. "Bars and restaurants are operating at 50% so we need to invoke 90 minute table limits to turn tables to keep a constant revenue stream," Jamie Lauren wrote, pointing out the adjustments eateries have been made over the past 12 months., including less wait staff and wearing masks. "We are struggling to make a living after being shut down for months and still aren't operating at full capacity," she continued. "We have adapted the best we can to serve our community. We would all love to be back to "normal" where we don't have to follow so many rules but sadly this is life during the pandemic." Locals have now raised almost $2,500 in response to the note but the waitress has said she'll only take out the money she should've been tipped and is dividing the rest with her co-workers. "It's really lovely what these people did and I just want to do some good with it," Beth said. "It's just really important to do some good with that money because it's – I didn't earn it, so if I can somehow try to reinvest it back into this amazing place, then yeah, that's exactly what we're going to do." </div> </div> </div>

Money & Banking

Waitress “saves abused boy” after spotting heartbreaking detail

A waitress has rescued an 11-year-old boy from being tied up and tortured by his parents with a secret note. Flaviane Carvalho revealed she was working at US restaurant, Mrs Potato in Orlando on New Year’s Day when she noticed a young boy sitting silently, not eating his dinner, while his parents ate their food. Concerned there was something wrong with the child’s dinner, she went over to the family to ask if everything was OK. His mum Kristen Swann, 31, and Timothy Wilson, 34 the boy’s stepfather, informed the waitress that he would be eating dinner at home instead. It was then that she saw bruises and a large scratch on the small child’s face. “I could see a big scratch between his eyebrows. Couple of minutes later, I saw a bruise on the side of his eye,” Flaviane told Fox News. “So I felt there was something really wrong.” The waitress panicked and scribbled on a note: “Do you need help? OK” and held it up for him to read while she stood behind his mum and stepfather. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7839518/waitress-boy-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/09301af0ea63476ea8909052a7956064" /> The boy nodded and quickly she left the table to call police, who stormed the restaurant moments later. In a tragic tale of events, the horrific torture the boy had been subjected to was exposed. Police discovered he had been tied up, starved and beaten by the sadistic pair. An Orlando PD spokesman said: “He said ratchet straps were tied around his ankles and neck, and he was hung upside down from a door. “He said he was hit with a wooden broom, and handcuffed and tied to a large moving dolly. “He also said he didn’t get to eat on a regular basis as punishment.” <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7839519/waitress-boy-3.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/553f798779f243a48158362b5cb3cd99" /> Wilson has been charged with child abuse and Swann with neglect, with claims that she knew about her partner’s evil doings, but failed to intervene and get medical care for him. The boy and his four-year-old sister were taken from the house by child services. “I’m a mother also and that was very strange to me because you don’t deny food to a kid, especially at a restaurant,” Carvalho said at a press conference Thursday. “Thank God the boy is safe now.” Orlando Police said Flaviane saved the little boy’s life. “By saying something when she saw something, Ms Carvalho displayed courage and care for a child she had never even met before, and we’re proud someone like Ms Carvalho lives and works in our community,” he said.

Caring

Man takes back tip from rude waitress

One man's dining experience has ended in an altercation, with a waitress not providing good customer service as promised. Taking to Reddit, an anonymous man wrote about his experience of dining at a local Chinese restaurant with a friend. He explained that while the food was "great", he and his friend had "almost no interactions" with wait staff during the evening due to coronavirus precautions. "The bill came out to be just about $30, and I tipped just a little above 15 per cent, giving $5," he said. The waitress took the bill from the table, but she returned just before the man and his friend left to question their tip. "She returned with the $5 bill we left to cover the tip and in a passive-aggressive tone [said] 'Was something wrong with the food? Where's the rest of the tip?'" he said. He says the interaction left him feeling "shocked and confused". "I recall it being the very first time I was confronted for not tipping enough, as my usual 15 per cent tip suffices in past restaurant experiences," he explained. He decided to take back the $5 tip without speaking to the waitress, and walked out of the restaurant with his friend, even though she attempted to call them out as they did. "In the moment, we both agreed that it was an insane thing for the waitress to do, acting as if we didn't tip at all," he said. "The waitress that had confronted us had been someone we had close to almost no contact with the entire time, as she had only been to our table once to give our food." He asked other Redditors to share what they would have done in the situation. "Ignore her request to tip more and leave the $5 bill as it was, or give a larger tip as she asked just to get the situation over with?" he asked. Commenters widely sided with the man. "Fifteen per cent is enough and you gave more. Taking the tip away from an entitled waitress is totally justified," one wrote. Another said they were "glad" he took the $5 note back, adding, "She's lucky you didn't get her fired, which she deserved."

Money & Banking

Waitress donates kidney to her customer

A waitress from Georgia offered one of her kidneys to a customer after she had learned that he had lost both of his kidneys. Waitress Mariana Villarreal was serving Don Thomas in May 2016 when she made the generous offer. When she had learned of Don’s kidney situation the waitress said, “Well I have two kidneys, do you want one of mine?” Her offer took Don by surprise but he accepted and had a successful surgery. It has almost been a year from their meeting and the pair still meet up. Mariana wrote on Instagram that she Don two to three times a month. “He's doing amazing! No kidney problems at all! #friendsforlife,” she wrote. Mariana’s decision to donate her kidney was influenced by her grandmother who died from kidney failure. Although she couldn’t donate to her grandma she explained, “If (Don) can live two more years, happy as he's ever been, that's fine with me.” Image credit: mariana_tolentino7 via Instagram Related Links: <a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/finance/money-banking/2017/02/7-year-old-boy-collects-over-ten-thousand-food-items-for-charity/">7 year old boy collects over 10,000 food items for charity</a> <a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/news/news/2017/01/husband-gives-wife-kidney-for-anniversary/">Husband to give wife a kidney for 20th anniversary</a> <a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/news/news/2016/12/frequent-flyer-donates-points-to-less-fortunate-families/">Man buys flights so less fortunate people can see their families at Christmas</a>

Retirement Life

Waitress drags huge goanna from Aussie restaurant

When a huge goanna made a surprise appearance at a winery restaurant in Australia, a French waitress quickly took control of the situation. On Sunday, Samia Lila was serving at the packed restaurant in southern New South Wales when a customer grabbed her hand and pointed at the unwelcome scaly visitor crawling across the floor. "I looked at it and thought it was a dog at first," Lila said. "But then I realised it was a goanna." About 180cm long, it went under one of the tables and the customers sitting there started to scream. "Everyone was screaming, so I started screaming too," Lila said. The 25-year-old put a chair in its path to try and buy time to think of what to do while stopping it from reaching customers. Running out of options, the best she could think of was grabbing it by its tail and dragging it outside across the veranda and away from everyone – including past a woman who had by then jumped on her chair. "I was just like a kid; I thought 'I want to do it, I want to do it, I know it's bad, but it was getting close to customers,’" Ms Lila said. "I wasn't scared, I like reptiles so was a bit excited." She has been in Australia since November and it was only the second time she had seen a goanna, after scaring one away from the winery's vines last week. A video of Lila's brave actions was posted on the Mimosa Wines Facebook page and was viewed nearly 200,000 times in two days. The Normandy resident said she did not expect the video to go viral at all. Due to her actions, she has now been labelled the "Goanna Girl". She will be working at Mimosa Winery – and protecting it from goannas – under her Working Holiday Visa until June or July before she continues her travels. Written by Albert McKnight. First appeared on <a href="http://Stuff.co.nz" target="_blank">Stuff.co.nz.</a> Video: Facebook/Mimosa Wines via Storyful. Related links: <a href="/news/news/2017/02/dog-tries-to-play-fetch-in-deep-snow/">Dog tries to play fetch in deep snow</a> <a href="/news/news/2017/02/fascinated-orangutan-tries-to-taste-bubbles/">Fascinated orangutan tries to taste bubbles</a> <a href="/news/news/2017/02/zookeeper-valentines-day-kisses-from-koalas/">Zookeeper receives Valentine’s Day kisses from two cute koalas</a>

News

Meet the first rollerskating waitress from the 1960s

For a time in the 1960s, the Perth's His Majesty's Theatre was known for its rollerskating hostesses. Brigitta Suba (then Brigitta Bruijnesteijn) was one of the two servers who would lace up her skates and roll to work in the restaurant and bar. <img width="452" height="301" src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/6927288-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="His Majesty's Hotel menu in 1962 with the waitresses on the cover and Brigitta Suba in the bar where she once worked in 2015." style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/> "It was about '62 and I used to nurse at Princess Margaret Hospital and the girls and I used to go skating at the Tivoli Garage in Hay Street at night," Ms Suba told 720 ABC Perth. "One night a gentleman approached me and introduced himself as Mr Stump, the publican at His Majesty's Hotel, and said he had just started skating hostesses and would I come and see him. "This is what I did and there was another girl called Nora and we both became the first skating hostesses in the world." Ms Suba is proud to say that she never once spilled a drink while waitressing on skates. "I came very close because in the lounge behind the bar, the young men used to really hope that we would trip," she said. "There was a fish tank at the back of the room and I could see myself ending up in there all the time, but I didn't. "We had to be very cautious and continually check the floor. I can absolutely say I can never remember spilling a drop." Source: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-10/perth-1960s-rollerskating-waitresses-never-spilled-a-drop/6927392" target="_blank">ABC</a> Related links: <a href="/lifestyle/family/2015/08/struggles-kids-of-today-dont-understand/">12 struggles your grandkids will never have to go through</a> <a href="/lifestyle/family/2015/08/historical-photos-in-colour/">Historical black-and-white photos restored in colour</a> <a href="/lifestyle/family/2015/09/retro-teenage-posters/">The best retro posters from the past</a>

News

Our Partners

Over 60

News

Shop

Catalogues

Newspaper

Contests

Entertainment

Travel

Health

Lifestyle

Finance

Property

Compare

Games

Information

Keep up to date

Search

“Is this real?!”: Melbourne waitress receives eyewatering tip

Waitress SACKED after receiving $6000 tip

Waitress receives $2k after group refuses to tip