Drunk Restaurant Customer Leaves $1,000 Tip, Returns Next Day to Ask for It Back

[KamaAina]

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/drunk-restaurant-customer-leaves-1-143924214.html

Sometimes, however, a restaurant tip (or lack thereof) can draw attention, and even outrage. There have been instances when celebrities and professional athletes have been called out for leaving paltry tips, and when customers have used religion or racism as an excuse for stiffing a waiter. On the flip side, there are far more stories in which celebrities leave huge tips—Jim Carrey most recently—and when anonymous customers do the same, like the $1,000 tip mysteriously left for a Waffle House waitress.

Over the weekend, it appeared as if another random act of extreme generosity took place at Thailicious, a restaurant in the Denver suburb of Edgewater, Colo. As the Denver Post reported, one of the waiters received an enormous tip of $1,088, on a dinner that cost about $60.

Thailicious’s owners were overjoyed but also uneasy, and held onto the money in case it was a mistake. Sure enough, the next day the mysterious customer returned and asked for the money back.

“He said, ‘I’m sorry, I was drunk,’” the restaurant’s owner, Bee Anantatho, related. It seems as if in his deep state of hammeredness, the customer was unaware of just how much cash he had on him. The owner assumes that the customer thought the bills he was leaving as a tip were $1 each, but in fact they were $100s.

[trueblue2007]

1. i would tell the DRUNK to stuff it, get out and never come back

[Initech]

2. Agreed, he's the dumbass who gave away $1,000 when he was drunk.

His loss!

[Callmecrazy]

5. Oh yeah? You guys wanna go out for drinks?

Never come back? Why? He's a great tipper.
If somebody ever told me that, I'd beat the shit out of them on spec.
You don't do that to people.
And if you're any kind of humane person, you wouldn't steal $1000 from a drunk person.
Only a real piece of shit would do that. You're not a piece of shit, are you?

[skypilot]

3. Sounds to me...

...like this was handled very well by everyone involved. Business owners were honest, customer wasn't a douche and the server still received a very generous tip.

[NewJeffCT]

4. I had a friend do something like that many years ago

it wasn't a thousand dollars, it was "only" $100 on a bill of less than $50. But, he was also a guy that didn't make a lot of money. The next day, when he went back to the restaurant, the waitress went up to him and said that he was drunk and offered to give him his money back. However, he said that she should keep it.

I was not with him when he gave out the tip, but was there when he told her to keep the money. We did get great service that night!