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(#1) $446 At Steak 'n Shake
CeCe Bruce, a Steak 'n Shake waitress in Indianapolis, often served Miss Jo, who was a regular. Bruce was shocked one day when she received a $446 tip from the frequent customer. What's more, the bill was just $5.97.
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(#2) $458 At Uncle Tony's Pizza
Half a thousand dollars is a lot of dough, especially for a pizza, a sandwich, and a pitcher of beer. Janice Ruggerio got a $458 tip out of that, which came from a generous couple at Uncle Tony's Pizza and Pasta in Cranston, RI.
The couple, who went to the pizza place in 2012, also came back a month later and dropped $70 to cover a $48 tab.
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(#3) $500 At Peter's Clam Bar
Amy Schumer proved she's a comedian with a heart of gold when she left a $500 tip on a $49 bill at Peter's Clam Bar in Long Island, NY. Schumer learned that her server, Ryan, was a student working two jobs to pay for school.
She only ordered some soup and a couple of appetizers, but left a greater than 1,000% tip in solidarity with the waiter. Schumer herself waited tables before making it big.
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(#4) $500 At Ralph's Italian Restaurant
In 2013, after a Friday night show, Taylor Swift and her entourage went to Ralph's Italian Market in Philadelphia, PA, for a late-night dinner. At 23 years old, T-Swift dropped half a grand on top of an $800 check, making Swifties proud.
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(#5) $500 At Outback Steakhouse
In 2012, when Indiana man Shea Mower passed away in a car accident, his friends honored his death with generosity. Mower's friends, including Tammy Schindler, celebrated what would have been his 34th birthday at an Outback Steakhouse.
Their tip, a generous $500, went to their surprised server, Cassie Smith.
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(#6) £600 At The Carew Inn
Russell Crowe doesn't just play heroes in Hollywood movies. In 2009, he brought nine friends to the Carew Inn in Wales for mussels and chicken. The bill came to £240. In addition to his £600 tip for the waiters, he and his friends sang for local patrons.
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(#7) $900 At Joxer Daly's
In 2012, when David Beckham went to a bar in Culver City, CA, he ran up a $100 tab. Weirdly enough, he threw on another zero. The result? A $900 tip.
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(#8) $1,000 For A Pizza Delivery Driver
A pizza delivery driver might have considered converting after Sycamore Creek Church in Pickerington, OH, gave her a $1,046 tip for a $5.99 pizza. Rev. Steve Markle offered the huge tip after explaining that the day's sermon had been about generosity. So inspired were Rev. Markle's 500+ congregants, that they decided to take up a collection plate for the driver.
When she arrived with the pie, they brought her onstage to give her the gift.
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(#9) $1,000 At PYT Burger
Celebrity tipping stories reached new heights when Charlie Sheen and LeSean McCoy developed a little beef over beef. In 2014, a few weeks after the star NFL running back was accused of tipping a Philadelphia, PA, waiter 20 cents, Sheen came to the rescue.
The actor pledged $1,000 to the same waiter, Rob Knelly, and delivered.
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(#10) $1,075 At Cheddar's
Knoxville, TN, waitress Khadijah Muhammad was having a rough time in 2014. She had lost her mother and was threatening to be stripped of her electricity in the same month, so she was picking up some extra shifts at Cheddar's.
That's when she received a tip, accompanied with a "God bless!" note, for $1,075 on a $29.30 bill.
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(#11) $1,268.86 At Domino's
In 2014, James Gilpin became one of the luckiest Domino's Pizza delivery guys in Indiana. An order came in from Indiana Wesleyan University, for two pizzas, with a bill of $12.50. What Gilpin didn't know was that upon delivery, he'd be ushered onstage in a campus chapel filled with 3,000 students, and given a $1,268.86 tip, along with $70 in gift cards, and inspirational notes from the students.
Why? It was all part of the speaker's lesson on the act of giving.
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(#12) $4,000 At Gibsons Steakhouse
Johnny Depp is an A-list actor and an A-plus tipper. Just ask his server at Gibsons Steakhouse in Chicago, IL, when Captain Jack himself forked over four grand in gratuity. Depp frequented the restaurant while he filmed Public Enemies.
He gave the waiter, Mohammad A. Sekhani, the massive tip in 2009.
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(#13) $5,000 At D'Amico's Italian Market Cafe
Greg Rubar was a waiter for 16 years at D'Amico's in Houston, TX, before his roughly 19,000% tip. In 2012, a couple learned that their favorite waiter had lost his family's car to a thunderstorm.
They added a $5,000 tip to their $26.95 bill and told Rubar to "go buy yourself a car."
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(#14) $12,000 At Fryn' Pan Family Restaurant
Stacy Knutson, a mother of five and a waitress at a Fryn' Pan Family Restaurant in Moorehead, MN, received an interesting tip in 2012. A woman left $12,000 cash in a box, which police initially seized while investigating a drug crime.
However, authorities later decided to hand it back over to Knutson.
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(#15) Dodge Durango At Waffle House
In 2013, Waffle House server Tonya Rhinehart of Atlanta, GA, revealed that the biggest tip she'd ever received was her Dodge Durango, given to her by a regular customer.
"Just keep on treating me the way you do," the customer told her.
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(#16) $92,350 At A Toronto Restaurant
The year was 1995 and the province was Ontario. John Steele, 55, left 24-year-old Toronto waitress Tracy Dalton a lottery ticket as a tip and said they'd share it if they won. The ticket ended up winning the American equivalent of $184,700, meaning Dalton scored a roughly $92,350 tip.
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(#17) $140,000 In Scratch-Off Winnings For A Denver Uber Driver
While not exactly intentional, a Denver man ended up tipping $140,000 for an Uber ride. After his driver dropped him off, the man tipped by handing the driver a $5 scratch-off ticket as a tip. The driver won $30 from the ticket and decided to buy more scratch-offs with his winnings. To his surprise, he kept lucking out.
Eventually, the winnings totaled $140,000. The driver planned to pay it forward, saying he'd five a large lump of his winnings to his parents.
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(#18) $3 Million At Sal's Pizzeria
Dobbs Ferry, NY, is a Manhattan suburb where dreams are born and turned into Nicolas Cage movies. It Could Happen to You was based on the real-life 1984 case of Phyllis Penzo. She was a waitress at Sal's for 24 years when police detective Robert Cunningham left her a lottery ticket that ended up being worth $6 million total. They split the winnings.
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Any job should be respected, and every worker is great because they are working hard for their good life and contributing to society, whether it is a restaurant server, a part-time worker, or a food delivery guy. Many countries have maintained a tipping culture, which reflects their respect for workers in the service industry and recognition of their work attitude.
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