Waiter returns $424,000 check to customer who stiffed him

[jpak]

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When a retired New York woman left her $424,000 cashier’s check at a local pizzeria, she said she felt her “world just collapsed." That is, until an unlikely hero came to save the day: the very waiter she burned with no tip and a sassy note.

After looking at a condo she hoped to buy, Karen Vinacour, her daughter and a real estate broker went to the historic Patsy’s Pizzeria in Manhattan to grab a slice of their signature brick-oven pizza — the same pizza enjoyed by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Al Pacino and even Justin Bieber. Tucked in a white envelope was a cashier’s check with the money she received from selling her last apartment. Vinacour, 79, planned to use the funds to put a down payment on what she hoped would be her brand new home.

That day, Armando Markaj, a pre-med student working his way through school, was assigned to their table. As the group enjoyed their lunch on the busy Saturday afternoon, the mother-daughter pair pointed out to Markaj that, out of all the framed photos of the owners with affluent customers on the wall, there seemed to be very few women.

“Maybe women don’t eat a lot of pizza?” Vinacour recalled Markaj replying.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Good people.

[dhol82]

2. Well, a good hearted waiter.

[Sherman A1]

3. Precisely

Certainly a good guy.

[stopdiggin]

4. Really?

Wait. What? Lady is carrying around 400 thou in an envelope .. and they just happen to do lunch? Did they also "do" shopping? Maybe some clubbing? IDK I guess they do things differently in New York.