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Bartender Clint Spotleson earned an $11,000 tip Saturday, Dec. 27, at Crudo in Phoenix.
'Tips for Jesus' Strikes Again at Philly Restaurant
Anybody that works bartending or waiting tables will tell you that their entire income is off of tips. Fortunately for the two ladies below, a higher power just may be looking out for them. An unidentified man, wielding an Amex Black card, came into their restaurant and left exactly $7,000 in tips for the two of them combined.
Sam Trasatti is now $2,000 richer thanks to this awesome tip!
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Mystery man gives 'Tips For Jesus'--up to $10,000
By Verena Dobnik, AP, Dec 15, 2013
NEW YORK (AP)--The $111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a $1,000 tip and the words "god bless!" scrawled across it.
The handle (at)tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible signature.
In recent weeks, similar tabs have popped up in restaurants from coast to coast and even in Mexico, with tips of as much as $10,000--all charged to American Express.
So who's the anonymous tipster leaving a trail of generosity across the continent?
Tips for Jesus--an Instagram account filled with photos documenting the tips--has more than 50,000 followers. The account displays photos of smiling servers holding receipts with outlandish gratuities on bills also tallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Phoenix and Ann Arbor, Mich. On Twitter, Tips for Jesus has nearly 3,000 followers but no tweets.
The Instagram feed comes with the tagline, "Doing the Lord's work, one tip at a time."
Three Manhattan restaurants were especially blessed the first weekend of December. A waiter in the restaurant of the NoMad Hotel got a $7,000 tip, another at The Smith restaurant was left $3,500, and $1,000 went to Aruj Dhawan, a 25-year-old fashion marketing student and immigrant from India working at Bo's Kitchen & Bar Room.
Dhawan served three guests who walked in one recent Saturday evening.
Their order--a bourbon, a beer, an appetizer, a pork ragout and a pork chop--amounted to $111.05, plus $1,000 for the waiter.
When they were gone, "Aruj approached me, handed me the receipt and said, 'Is this for real?'" said general manager Benjamin Cramer.
The tipster wrote his cellphone number at the bottom of the tab, telling Cramer to call him if American Express had any issues with processing the receipt.
After seeing the amount, Cramer said he understood why the credit card company might be suspicious and he himself was curious. So he called the number. The man who answered reassured the manager that the tip was real.
The man demanded anonymity, so Cramer did not pursue tracking his identity.
A $1,000 tip also went to a waiter at the Hungry Cat in Los Angeles after three men finished their dinner, said restaurant spokeswoman Jannis Swerman. One of them stamped the check (at)tipsforjesus.
In another photo, a Phoenix bartender beams looking at his $2,500 tip.
"This middle-aged gentleman came in with a woman, and they sat at the bar," says Micah Olson, the bartender at a restaurant called Crudo who served them one of the most expensive whiskeys at $70 per ounce.
"They sat at the bar and had 5 ounces total," Olson says. "The guy was really cool and bought me two ounces."
The man asked for the check--$530.67--and paid with his Amex.
"When they left, I saw the tip and I went, 'Wow!'" says the 35-year-old bartender. "I hope one of these days, we'll find out who he is."
The mysterious stranger apparently knows some Spanish.
A tab dated Dec. 5, 2013, from a resort in Punta Mita, Mexico, is posted on Instagram with the comment, "Muchas gracias Carlos!"--meaning "many thanks" to Carlos Mendez, a grinning young waiter holding a bill for $158.11 with a tip of 13,100 Mexican pesos, or about $1,000.
One day last week, "I saw him looking so happy, holding the check," said Benito Robles, a concierge at the resort. "I asked him, 'Why are you smiling?' and he showed me the tip."
Mendez went home to his wife and two kids in a nearby village and took some vacation, according to Robles.
The guessing continues.
And across the land, restaurant servers are posting pleas on Instagram asking the mysterious tipster to visit them, giving exact locations.
He's not the only one with a knack for generosity at the table.
Seth Collins, of Lexington, Ky., has been leaving $500 tips around the country--following his late brother's instructions.
Before Aaron Collins died last year, he gave his brother a mission: Eat, be merry and leave a giant tip.
Through his family, he's given away more than 80 tips throughout the U.S.
Tips for Jesus' mystery man strikes again — for $5,000
(Photo via Facebook)
The $111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a $1,000 tip and the words "god bless!" scrawled across it.
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A $10,000 tip!: Mystery ‘Jesus’ restaurant goer gives monster gratuities then captures moment on Instagram
Restaurant workers around the country are being photographed with huge smiles on their faces — holding up receipts with tips of up to $10,000
Each tab is stamped with the handle @tipsforjesus and bears an illegible signature.
The anonymous tipster has left his trail of generosity coast to coast and even in Mexico.
A waiter in Phoenix beams looking at his $2,500 tip. And a $111.05 New York restaurant check includes a $1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it.
Photos of the outlandish tips are posted on the Instagram account “Tips for Jesus” that has more than 50,000 followers. The feed comes with the tagline, “Doing the Lord’s work, one tip at a time.”
Jack Selby
Jack Selby, a former PayPal VP with more money than the real son of God, has been outed as the mysterious big-spender who has been leaving outrageously huge tips for lucky servers over the past few weeks in Chicago, South Bend, Ind. and other towns throughout the country.
Selby has been leaving a short note and the Instagram handle "tipsforjesus" on the receipt. Lucky servers have been the recipients of $3,000, $5,000, even $10,000 on dinner tabs.
Selby's Facebook suggests his friends had already appear to be "in on the secret," adding that a tipster tells them "all the Jesus talk is a joke."
Joke or no joke, a few lucky waitresses and bartenders are currently making out like bandits.
(Photo via Instagram)
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