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.
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Convenient.
Thank you sir. Most important and relevant information. I feel sad for the restaurant most of all. They had their name drug through the mud for days and days. And it was not their fault.
I went to a restaurant several states away. A couple weeks later I looked in my wallet and realized that I brought home the signed receipt. I called and was told that happens often. They just process it with no tip. I felt bad and mailed a check to the waitress. Wasn’t $1000 though. I think it was 30%.
Then a couple weeks ago, I was again out of state and forgot to grab my credit card. When I called a couple days later, they still had it and mailed it to me.
I didn’t know you were so emotionally invested in the story. You should try decaf and up your meds.
I did not know that but no more tips on credit cards for me. From now on it’s cash only to the waiter/waitress.
And, there is no way for the credit card company to know whether the amount is correct or not. From their perspective, the $2,069 charge (or whatever it was) could have been from a party room event, some high-priced wine, catering, etc.
They don't run the credit card when the customer pays?
After years of observing people who are seemingly always in need, I have decided that 9 times out of 10 people are where they are because of stupid, immature, impulsive thinking. I hope nobody bothers to try and change my mind.....I’ve experienced regret time and time again when I’ve been charitable....and not just to young people. In fact, I just got burned by a couple in their early 70’s, after being very charitable to them....opportunity of a lifetime. It’s the last time I’ll give.
Back in the day, I shuttled food for a company that was a precursor to Uber Eats and Doordash (no Internet back then). Dispatch used two-way mobile radios to call us out in the field and send us to one or more restaurants to pick up the order. I had one customer give me a $300 tip on the check. The good news was, the check cleared and I got my money. The bad news was, the dude was psycho, off his meds, and murdered his parents a few hours before. The gun he used was in the hall closet where he handed me the check. I realized later how badly things could have gone sideways for me.
You’re slandering an honorable man. If I were him, I’d sue you.
“From now on it’s cash only to the waiter/waitress.”
In Texas anyway. I’m not sure if other states do it the same way. I stopped tipping on credit charges years ago. I want to give a reward for good service and I want to determine the number. If I charge the award there are fees for credit card uses. I don’t tip a service that does nothing special to get the money. I pay them for that.
wy69
From here:
>>.I’ve experienced regret time and time again when I’ve been charitable....<<
I can certainly identify with what you’re saying. I feel like it’s way past time for me to be so generous to people.
“I didn’t know you were so emotionally invested in the story. You should try decaf and up your meds.”
You should know that I am emotionally invested in the truth.
Actually not true. The business runs your card for the total sans the tip. You sign the receipt after adding your tip to the total. Then the business reconciles the days drafts with the amended amount.
I, too, was in a relationship and got burned. I thought I was helping financially, but I was enabling.
Long story short.
Probably not but you process what you read and interpret it as you want.........Sheesh!
Can't count how many feel good stories are posted here and are ultimately crapped on.............
“Nonsense. The patron gave her the tip and the employer tried to make excuses to keep it.”
ROTFLMAO!
Even the waitress said the employer never got the tip!
If you anything about CC processing you would know that a tip of that size would be rejected by the processor.
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