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Server fired after picture of Peyton Manning’s generous tip on bill goes viral
March 08, 2012
Quarterback Peyton Manning collects his thoughts as he speaks during a news conference in Indianapolis, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Msnning's generous tip at a North Carolina restaurant eventually cost a waitress her job because a photo of the bill went viral on the Internet. The owner said her restaurant prides itself on discretion.
AJ Mast/AP
On the day after Indianapolis Colts icon Peyton Manning lost his job and $28 million bonus, this might seem like a gratuitous story.
But a picture of the quarterback’s bill, reportedly from the high-end Angus Barn restaurant in Raleigh, N.C., has gone viral on the Internet.
The reason? Manning left a $200 tip on the $739.58 tab, the web site Sweater Punch reported.
While that looks like a generous, if somewhat extravagant, 25 per cent gratuity, it doesn’t factor in the automatic 18 per cent tip already in place.
That made Manning’s munificence closer to 50 per cent of his actual food and drink tab.
And his likely unwitting generosity cost the server’s job, because the restaurant’s owner Van Eure was outraged at the unwanted publicity.
“This goes against every policy we have,” said Eure, adding that her establishment prides itself on discretion.
“It’s just horrible,” she was quoted as saying.
She said she planned to phone the newly free agent quarterback to apologize.
Back to Server fired after picture of Peyton Manning’s generous tip on bill goes viral
Server fired after picture of Peyton Manning’s generous tip on bill goes viral
March 08, 2012
Quarterback Peyton Manning collects his thoughts as he speaks during a news conference in Indianapolis, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Msnning's generous tip at a North Carolina restaurant eventually cost a waitress her job because a photo of the bill went viral on the Internet. The owner said her restaurant prides itself on discretion.
AJ Mast/AP
On the day after Indianapolis Colts icon Peyton Manning lost his job and $28 million bonus, this might seem like a gratuitous story.
But a picture of the quarterback’s bill, reportedly from the high-end Angus Barn restaurant in Raleigh, N.C., has gone viral on the Internet.
The reason? Manning left a $200 tip on the $739.58 tab, the web site Sweater Punch reported.
While that looks like a generous, if somewhat extravagant, 25 per cent gratuity, it doesn’t factor in the automatic 18 per cent tip already in place.
That made Manning’s munificence closer to 50 per cent of his actual food and drink tab.
And his likely unwitting generosity cost the server’s job, because the restaurant’s owner Van Eure was outraged at the unwanted publicity.
“This goes against every policy we have,” said Eure, adding that her establishment prides itself on discretion.
“It’s just horrible,” she was quoted as saying.
She said she planned to phone the newly free agent quarterback to apologize.
