A waitress at a Michigan restaurant has been fired after accepting a $10,000 tip from a customer, according to the Detroit Free Press.
waitress, identified The New York Post lost its job as Lindsey Boyd a week after the tipping incident. The man, who had lunch at the Mason Jar Cafe in Benton Harbor after attending his funeral on Feb. 5, added a hefty tip to his $32.43 bill. detroit free press report.
Server fired for accepting $10,000 tip, but owner insists it had nothing to do with viral sex act: 'Purely a business decision' https://t.co/0n6MHCJAfX pic.twitter.com/kY5ISyz1yh
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According to the paper, the middle-aged customer, wearing a dark suit and using an American Express card, plans to divide the money among wait staff in honor of the restaurant's late manager, Tim Sweeney. It is said that it was. The workers posed with receipts with the generous man's name blurred out in photos posted on social media, which they said were at the request of the dump company.
The fired server, who posted the photo online, explained in a now-deleted Facebook post that “drama ensued” after the money was split, the outlet reported. She added that her “attempts to diffuse the situation and clear up the rumors only made things worse.”
Restaurant managers told waitresses to take both Sunday and Monday off as “mental health days,” the newspaper said. The employee claimed that this was what he was told. [she was] The paper said he was fired by phone on Tuesday after telling management in an email the day before whether he had been urged “not to return professionally.”
“In one week, I was such a wonderful, hard-working employee, and a wonderful mother…I couldn't have asked for a better human being.” He is said to have written this in his book: For the first time since I was 15 years old, I don't have a job.
The owners of Mason Jar Cafe Facebook The newspaper said it clarified the “allegations” made by the employee about the waitress's firing, saying that the waitress' firing “was not a decision taken hastily or hastily.” (RELATED: Waitress surprises woman after woman allegedly occupied restaurant booth for hours)
“We truly value our staff,” the restaurant owners wrote. “We've had the same staff for five or six years. We have a female college student who goes home every summer, and it's been four years now. Every summer, at the end of the season, we take our staff up north. We're doing everything we can to make sure we don't lose any of our staff, donating to college funds for them, keeping them employed during the pandemic.”
