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A portion back, we shared stories from work workers who waited connected celebrated radical and revealed however overmuch they got tipped. Well, adjacent much readers shared their ain personage extremity experiences, and I'm stunned by immoderate of these. Here are those stories:
Some submissions are besides from this thread due to the fact that they're conscionable excessively bully not to share.
The radical who shared their stories allegedly talk from idiosyncratic encounters. Obviously, we weren't determination erstwhile they happened, truthful consciousness escaped to instrumentality them with a atom of salt.
1. "I was a housekeeper astatine a ample edifice adjacent to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport successful 1977. Robert De Niro stayed astatine that edifice portion filming scenes for The Deer Hunter. I cleaned his country a fewer times, not knowing who occupied it. I retrieve it being precise muddy. One day, I was opening the doorway to leave, and helium walked successful and said hi. I astir fell connected the floor! Very nice, gentleman. He tipped precise good also."
2. "Hailey Bieber came to my job, ordered huffy shit, and didn’t adjacent extremity a penny 🤣🤡."
3. "I served Gloria Steinem erstwhile I was moving astatine a Red Robin successful Vancouver during the aboriginal '90s. She was rude and demanding and tipped horribly contempt maine bending implicit backwards to springiness her the best, astir attentive work possible."
4. "I was a waiter each implicit LA and Beverly Hills successful the aboriginal '90s. I waited connected hundreds of celebrated people. Mostly bully and bully tippers. The worst and astir memorable was Gladys Knight. It was astatine the aged Tony Roma’s astatine Universal City. She near $1."
5. "I worked astatine a section Thai edifice for galore years successful a assemblage town. I retrieve this mates came successful connected a quiet, dilatory weeknight. I sat them and grabbed water, past went done my accustomed script, asking if they had immoderate questions astir the paper oregon immoderate appetizers to get started. The feline looks up astatine me, and I admit him arsenic Aaron Carter. I noticed his manus tattoo and googled it erstwhile I got backmost to the room to corroborate it was him. I conjecture helium had a amusement successful municipality that I wasn’t alert of, since I didn’t support up with him since his cameo connected Lizzie McGuire. I served them arsenic mean and near them beryllium to bask their meal, but checked up occasionally. He didn’t truly interaction his food, truthful I packed it up for him, but didn’t instrumentality it with him."
6. "Jerry Seinfeld is simply a bully feline and a bully tipper, but helium doesn't similar radical to marque a fuss implicit him. In my experience, helium conscionable wants to get successful and get retired without being bothered, but isn't rude astir it. He came into a spot I worked astatine during a dilatory time, and I offered to spot him successful the fractional of the edifice that was closed disconnected due to the fact that it would springiness him much privacy, and helium was ace appreciative."
7. "I served Dave Chappelle. He's incredibly respectful and polite! He referred to maine by my sanction and tipped much than 100% successful cash."
8. "A person of a person claimed that respective years ago, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet dined astatine the edifice she worked astatine and tipped a chaotic amount, similar 300%. She was not their waitress, but the co-worker who said that they were highly affable and engaged successful a abbreviated chat with her earlier leaving."
9. "I utilized to bartend for a bully edifice successful Berkeley. Cillian Murphy was staying astatine the edifice for a fewer days portion filming a movie nearby. He would beryllium astatine the barroom and chat with me. Nice capable feline — thought we had a bully rapport. But connected consecutive days of serving him, helium didn't extremity astatine all! He adjacent went retired of his mode to constitute the fig '0' connected the extremity line. He’s lived and worked successful the States agelong capable not to propulsion that full 'Oh, I americium from Europe' BS."
10. "When I was successful assemblage successful the '70s, I worked astatine Oscar's, the java store astatine the Waldorf Astoria. I worked connected many, galore celebrities who performed successful the Rainbow Room upstairs. There was Bob Hope, who lived up successful the Waldorf Towers. I was the caller girl, truthful the elder hold unit pushed him connected maine the archetypal clip I saw him, and I was excited. After helium finished eating, I went implicit to wide the table. There was nary tip. I picked up the past plate, and nether that was a quarter. Then I heard the laughter. I turned to look astir astatine the java station, and determination were each the girls waiting arsenic I went done clearing the array and laughing astatine maine arsenic I picked up the quarter. It was funny. No 1 wanted to hold connected him, and neither did I aft that. He was notoriously stingy with the staff. I retrieve telling my parent astir him; she was a large fan, and aft that, she said, 'I’ll ne'er spot him the aforesaid mode again.'"
11. "Back successful 1994, I was a waitress successful this small edifice successful Brigham City, Utah. One day, connected a midweek afternoon, a beauteous mates came successful and sat, and I was the waitress assigned to them. I noticed however gorgeous they looked. I was successful awe erstwhile nary different than Harrison Ford and his beauteous woman came in. I had served them, but, inactive successful daze and star-struck, missed that request, and helium graciously gestured with his manus that helium needed silverware… I felt dumb, but instantly corrected the situation. They were super, ace bully astir it and near a GREAT tip. I volition ne'er hide that they are stars but besides down-to-earth radical conscionable similar us. I emotion him."
12. "About 40 years ago, I was moving astatine The Kettle edifice successful Fayetteville, NC, serving the meal assemblage the greeting aft a concert. It was slammed. A array of 4 men sat down successful my section. After they left, the different girls rushed over, asking if I had gotten his autograph. Confused, I asked them what they were talking about. They each but screamed, 'Willie Nelson, did you get his autograph?!' I replied, 'Who’s that?' I didn’t perceive to state astatine the time, truthful I had nary hint what they were talking about. Very bully man, near maine a extremity adjacent to the cheque amount."
13. "Diane Keaton was a 25% tipper."
14. "50 Cent. He didn’t permission capable currency and tried to locomotion out. I had to tally aft him and fto him cognize helium was short. He seemed frustrated and rapidly gave maine conscionable capable to screen the bill. The extremity was little than 10 cents."
15. "Drew Carey is simply a fantastic person. Funny, polite, loves to beryllium social, precise affable overall. Snuck into the edifice I worked astatine successful Vegas, had luncheon with his friends who were waiting for him. The measure was $260, they rounded up to $500."
16. "There's a large communicative astir Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky playing astatine the Hard Rock successful Vegas. They're successful a backstage precocious roller country playing blackjack ($500-$10k per hand), Michael orders a portion from a cocktail waitress and tips her a $5 chip. Gretzky grabs it from her tray, replaces it with a $100 chip, and says to him, 'That's however we extremity successful Las Vegas, Michael.'"
17. "I waited connected David Arquette, and helium was a precise generous tipper and beauteous idiosyncratic to hold on."
18. "Amy Schumer is simply a generous tipper. There was 1 clip erstwhile she saw Hamilton and near the bartenders astatine the theatre with a $1,000 tip."
19. "Michael Richards erstwhile near a $10,000 extremity astatine a diner."
20. "Ree Drummond (Pioneer Woman) near maine 100% connected her bill!"
21. "Tony Bennett came into a edifice I was moving at. He saw a wedding enactment having post-wedding drinks, picked up their tab, and near a 20% tip."
22. "Nipsey Hussle was staying astatine a edifice successful Hollywood, my buddy worked there. He said Nipsey Hussle asked for a vessel of h2o and tipped him $200."
23. Lastly, "Juwan Howard. He was a super-friendly guy; helium said hullo to everybody erstwhile helium came in. He brought his girl successful for her day and tipped 100%."
Responses person been edited for length/clarity.
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