Posted on 12/03/2020 1:17:26 PM PST by conservative98
A Texas waitress who claimed she was stiffed on a mystery diner’s $2,000 tip will take home the money after all — now that her employer has agreed to cut her a check.
Emily Bauer, 21, will be given the money by the owner of Red Hook Seafood and Bar in San Antonio after the joint claims the diner’s credit card transaction didn’t go through, news station KENS reported.
“It’s Christmas time, and everybody is struggling,” owner John Cheng told the outlet Wednesday. “I’m ready to give it to her as a Christmas gift.”
Cheng reportedly wrote Bauer a check for $2,069.01, which is the tip amount plus the cost of the customer’s bill.
“The fact that the owner of my job is willing to give it to me, even though it wasn’t his mess-up, I can’t thank him enough for that,” she told the news station.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Did he write 2000 or 20.00 or 2000.00?
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”
Wow, her employer sounds like a complete sucker. Seems like all of these stories I read about waitresses and their tips turn out to be fraud by the waitresses themselves.
I wonder why the restaurant owner gave her the price of the meal too. That seems kind of weird.
It’s Christmas.
I’ll bet the owner was being murdered on Twitter. People tend to get outraged very easily if certain conditions are in place.
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.
Agreed, too many uninformed commenters.
Because in many restaurants, if the person does not pay (dine and dash), the waiter is left with the responsibility to pay the bill.
The tip was not authorized by the credit card company.
Don’t accuse the owner of a crime he didn’t commit. You should repent and issue an apology on this forum.
This tip is coming out of the owners pocket. You should be cheering him instead of accusing him of theft. That’s shameful.
“Funny stuff going on here.”
Tipper knew it wouldn’t process.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/redhook-cajun-seafood-and-bar-san-antonio
Thanks to idiots like Megan C. in San Francisco, CA.
1 star rating...
12/2/2020 Is this the same restaurant that stiffed a young waitress out of a $2,000 tip? Unless they give it to her, I believe it is fair game to give a poor review to an owner and manager who have no ethics, moral compass or heart. Do not patronize this establishment, as they steal tips from hard-working young mothers. BAD FORM!! nypost.com/2020/12/02/wa…
“Owner got pinched trying to steal the tip and made good on it so fast he might not get in hot water.”
YOU ARE SO WRONG!
“At first she was claiming that her employer was trying to stiff her on the tip”
THAT IS FAKE NEWS!
“There is NO way the bank would not process that credit card amount-—”
YOU ARE SO WRONG!
If this is true, I would not accept such a gift from the owner if the customer was a fraudster. It's not the owner's fault that she got stiffed on the tip by a fraudster. In fact if true, the restaurant got stiffed on the whole bill.
“Nonsense. The patron gave her the tip and the employer tried to make excuses to keep it.’
YOU ARE SO WRONG!
“Wow, her employer sounds like a complete sucker. “
You are the sucker!
“That is exactly what happened.”
Something happened alright, but the law was ignored to do it. By Texas law, she should have received the amount of the tip to get to minimum wage levels. I don’t completely agree with the law in this instance, but it is the law. It was put in to protect food service workers to minimum wage at the least.
wy69
But the eatery now insists the ordeal was a misunderstanding — and they couldn’t pay out the tip because the transaction didn’t go through.
“It’s like the bank telling you like, ‘Oh, it’s fraud. We’re not going to do it,’” the general manager, who declined to be identified, told KENS.
“If I put a $2,000 tip on mine? My bank is going to deny it. They’re going to deny it. They’re going to deny it because I do not normally do that; I do not normally tip that way.”
What bank? It was a VISA card transaction.
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