Drunk customer leaves $1,000 tip but returns next day to take it back
A popular Thai restaurant, Thailicious, in Edgewater, Colorado was left stunned on the weekend when a customer left them a tip of $1,088.
Bee Anantatho, owner of Thailicious, said it was a “big thing” after one of his wait staff told him of the tip.
"He said he’d read a lot of stories like this, but usually the tip is a couple hundred dollars, not $1,000,” Anantatho said of the waiter to The Denver Post. "He was so happy."
The tip was split between all of the staff, but Anantatho encouraged his staff to hold onto the tip in case the customer returned. Which he did.
The customer returned the next day, full of regret, and suffering tipper’s remorse.
"He said, ‘I’m sorry, I was drunk,'" Anantatho said. "He didn’t know he put all the money he had in the checkbook.”
The customer thought some of the $100 notes he put down were actually $1 bills.
He left with his money, leaving a less generation – by comparison, at least – tip of $40.
We’re sure this isn’t the first time to happen in the US, where their notes look the same. Have you ever suffered tipper's remorse? Tell us in the comments below.
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