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UPDATE: $5,000 Tip To Clearwater Server Was Part Of Revenge Plot

It was fake!

MADRID, SPAIN – DECEMBER 05: A waiter places bread on a table before homeless people enter to have free dinner at Robin Hood restaurant on December 5, 2016 in Madrid,…

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UPDATE 7/2/19:

Original Post:

A customer at the Clear Sky Beachside Café in Clearwater  (Which is AWESOME by the way) dined in for a meal that was around $60.  The server... got a $5,000 tip to go along with the bill.

The server named Ryan, had recently put her dog down and must have been talking to the customer about it.  I've waited tables a lot and I always chatted w my tables...so I get that.

What an awesome thing to do.  Wish I had that much money I could just give it away like that.

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