Waffle House Policy Keeps Waitress From Keeping $1,000 Tip

If you’re looking to leave a very special tip for your Waffle House server, do it with cash. That’s the lesson learned from the story of one WH waitress in North Carolina who couldn’t keep the 4-digit tip left by a generous customer.

The server, a seven-year veteran of a Raleigh Waffle House, was working the overnight shift on Mother’s Day weekend when a local businessman wrote in a $1,500 tip on his credit receipt with the instruction that $500 of that be given to a needy-looking fellow diner in the adjoining booth.

But that tip just went back into the customer’s account instead of into the pockets of the server and the other diner.

“I feel like they stole from me,” the waitress tells the News and Observer. “They did exactly what they teach us not to do.”

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