"How Sad To Be So Famous And So Cheap": Servers Are Exposing The Best And Worst Celebrity Tippers

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:

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. "Miley Cyrus is not lone benignant but besides debased maintenance, and she tips precise well. She came into my edifice successful Nashville with a precise ample enactment and ordered veggie fajitas. Nothing changed oregon modified, got everything conscionable arsenic it came. Asked for a container for her leftovers. Tipped 200% and was a sweetheart."

2. "Seth Rogen is 1 of my favorites. He’d travel into a barroom I worked at, bid the cheapest airy beer, and extremity $100 each time. He’s down to world and likes to beryllium treated similar a mean person, but you tin perceive his laughter from anyplace other successful the building."

3. "Back successful the aboriginal 2000’s, I was conscionable a teen moving astatine a steakhouse. I had been informed that my full conception of a backmost enactment country was reserved for the full WWE unit due to the fact that an lawsuit was happening that night. I didn’t truly travel WWE, truthful it wasn’t a large woody to me. Turned retired lone 1 wrestler showed up, with, I assume, his manager oregon agent. I had nary thought who helium was, but kids started lining up astatine the door, asking if they could get his autograph. The wrestler was Dwayne Johnson, AKA The Rock. He saw the kids, smiled, and said, 'Sure, fto them travel in.'"

4. "I served Rob Lowe astatine One Fifth successful NYC successful the aboriginal ’80s. He near a $100 extremity connected a tiny bill. He was funny, precise nice, and respectful to maine and the staff."

5. "I utilized to beryllium a bartender successful Brooklyn, and 1 nighttime Robert Pattinson came successful with a radical of friends. I treated him similar anyone other successful the barroom and purposely didn’t gully attraction to him (this was astatine the highest of Twilight madness). He was appreciative and precise polite. Also, a large tipper, leaving 100% of the total."

6. "Around 2007, successful Ryan Gosling’s aboriginal days, helium was successful my hometown and stopped by the pizza spot with immoderate others. He came successful towards closing time, but rounded up a $55 cheque to $100 and took pics with everyone determination who wanted one."

7. "Phyllis Diller, the comedian. She would travel into Miss Hollings, wherever I was a waitress, and cipher wanted to hold connected her due to the fact that she thought that since she was a celebrated comedian, her extremity was for america waiting connected her. How bittersweet to beryllium truthful celebrated and truthful cheap."

8. "I worked astatine a spot called Abel’s connected the Lake successful Austin, TX. Bill Paxton would travel in, beryllium astatine the bar, and ever get the aforesaid thing. He’d enactment astir 2 hours, person $3-$50 scotches, marque tiny talk, and extremity $150. Every time. He was ever benignant to fans and a existent stand-up guy. R.I.P. Bill."

9. "I enactment successful backstage property absorption successful Beverly Hills. I cognize each of the large A-Listers, but the classiest, nicest idiosyncratic of each is Gloria Steinem. She would enactment astatine my boss's location connected extended holidays and is sweet, polite, and genuine. You telephone her 'Gloria,' not Ms. Steinem. After her stay, she leaves wealth for the unit arsenic a convey you for america going supra and beyond."

10. "I waited connected Tim Walz successful a tiny cafe successful our assemblage municipality successful 2018. He offered maine an autograph, and I blew him off, not caring helium was the politician of different state."

11. "I worked astatine the 3rd Starbucks to unfastened successful NYC successful Greenwich Village. I served everyone from Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow (yeah, they were a thing), to Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, to The Beastie Boys. They were each astonishing radical and VERY VERY bully tippers! I mean, if their Venti skim, other hot, other caramel with a interaction of chocolate, double-cupped Caramel Macchiato Latte, with whip, outgo them $9 successful 1997, that’s $18.66 arsenic of today. Gwyneth erstwhile near a $100 measure successful the extremity jar. Genuinely classy people."

12. "I had a person who waited connected Jennifer Lopez close aft she got super-famous. She and her entourage allegedly ran my person ragged, insulted him, held up the array for 3+ hours, and wholly stiffed him connected the tip. He was a large server, and she was a nightmare."

13. "My coworker served Jack Black, and I helped tally the nutrient to the table. He tipped $300 connected a tab of astir $500. He was besides precise bully to everyone, said goodnight to maine connected his mode out."

14. "I worked astatine a Chart House Restaurant. Gary Coleman ordered lobster and a drink. He near $1 connected a $70 check. I had been a good eating server for 30 years. Cheap inexpensive cheap."

15. "I worked astatine a precise nice, upscale but besides casual restaurant. Many celebrities and noteworthy folks came successful determination implicit the years. One memorable array was Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, and immoderate friends. Justin was fine, a small aloof, mostly not precise interactive, which was wholly fine, actually. But Jessica Biel was a full sweetheart. Super nice, friendly, and appreciative. And, she was wholly stunning. She made a large impression."

16. "Hailey Bieber came to my job, ordered huffy shit, and didn’t adjacent extremity a penny 🤣🤡."

17. "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."

18. "Kevin Hart tipped maine FAT the different day. $300 connected an $80 bill."

19. "I’ve tally and bartended respective events hosted by 50 Cent, and he’s ever been ace lovely, humble, and a large tipper."

20. "In the aboriginal 2000s, I worked astatine a good eating edifice successful the Colosseum Forum Shops successful Las Vegas connected the strip. Jay-Z and his entourage came successful and took up my full section. Everything went fine, they didn't instrumentality anything. They weren't overly friendly, but that was fine. We did not enactment the automatic gratuity for parties of 8 oregon much connected determination due to the fact that helium was a celebrity. The measure was astir $5,000, and helium near perfectly nary tip. Not a azygous penny. My mediocre manager felt truthful atrocious for maine that helium gave maine a 20% extremity connected the full measure retired of the kitty."

21. "Kevin James near maine a $230 extremity connected a $330 bill. So, helium tin bash nary incorrect successful my eyes."

22. "I’ve served countless celebrities implicit the years. Jesse McCartney, successful summation to being my puerility crush, became a regular of excavation successful West Hollywood. Always drinks Casamigos, pays for everyone, and tips 25-50%."

23. "I waited connected Joe Rogan astir 10 years ago. He was quiet, polite, and precise low-maintenance. He near a $100 extremity connected a $30 tab."

24. "It was the mid-90s, and a coworker of excavation had the pleasance of waiting connected Anthony Michael Hall. He happened to beryllium successful town, gathering his dada for the archetypal clip astatine our restaurant. She was moved by the concern and wanted to marque definite it was peculiar for him, but was disappointed erstwhile helium paid the measure and near her lone a $10 tip."

25. "I waited connected Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz erstwhile they were dating. They came successful with 5 different radical for drinks and immoderate apps. The measure was astir $500. Ashlee paid and tipped maine $200. Plus, she, Pete, and their friends were each truthful affable and down to earth. Before she near (and aft she paid), I fto Ashlee cognize that I was a instrumentality of her music. She was precise blessed to perceive it, thanked me, and gave maine a large hug."

26. "Post Malone is notoriously precise generous. I cognize him connected a idiosyncratic level now, but helium utilized to predominant The Rainbow and extremity the patio server connected each round, often respective 100 dollars."

27. "Martin Starr took maine to a section bar/grill with a clump of formed and unit from Tulsa King (I was moving connected the show). We ordered a batch of nutrient and drinks, and Martin picked up the tab, which was astir $2,500. However, the paper didn't spell done owed to fraud reasons. Nevertheless, helium got connected the phone, verified it was him to his bank, and past paid the bill. He near a 30% oregon higher extremity for the server who helped us. He really asked maine to adhd it up arsenic helium couldn't rather work the receipt. He was ever ace saccharine and nice, and helium often ordered crystal pick trucks and worldly to travel to the workplace for each the unit to devour connected him."

28. "I person waited connected aggregate celebrities successful Park City during the Sundance Film Festival. Most of them were precise bully and tipped generously. My biggest tip, percentage-wise, came from Steve Carell. He and his household were benignant and down-to-earth and were a pleasance to serve."

29. "I waited connected Brooke Shields with 2 guests astatine a edifice successful NYC backmost successful 1980. She had conscionable been successful Blue Lagoon, and genuinely was America’s sweetheart astatine the time. She was pleasant and cheerful. She near a 30% tip, and I felt large astir having served her."

30. "My coworker served Ludacris once, and helium was seemingly good until the end, wherever helium asked the server if the edifice was going to instrumentality attraction of the measure for him. They lone agreed to due to the fact that helium said he'd extremity the server. Pretty afloat of himself."

31. And finally, "Love Billy Joel’s music, but I met him and helium wasn’t affable astatine all. My lad worked successful a North Shore edifice that helium regularly frequented, and helium was a 20% tipper, that’s all."

Responses person been edited for length/clarity.

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