A St. Louis bartender thought she was getting the tip of a lifetime. Then one credit card company showed her the agony of the credit card defeat.
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Reddit user randomdazee posted the shockingly large tip on the site with a story (presented partially below) that quickly went viral:
“One of the sisters was taking the other out after she had gone through a pretty big personal trauma and she obviously wanted to show her sister a good time. They ordered quite a few things and a gentleman met them.
Throughout the meal the sister that was treating the other one would flag me down and talk with me and kept saying things like ‘Don’t tell my sister how I tip.’ ‘Today I’m your guardian angel.’ Etc, etc. I’ve worked in restaurants forever and can tell you from experience that usually people who say things like this are full of shit. But she seemed to be tossing a LOT of cash around to her guests and the situation was just bizarre.
They leave and I look at the receipt and yeah. $200,000.
Basically, the gist of it is that banks don’t honor payouts on excessive tips. (Apparently they can bounce back tips that are even over 30% of the bill… which is kind of crazy because I often receive those kind of tips on tabs of regulars or other industry workers.)”
The bartender also claims that the woman didn’t seem drunk or otherwise incapacitated.
If so, that’s pretty shitty. I get that credit card companies try to limit the amount of exposure they have to people’s whims being changed immediately — like some rich dude trying to win over a hot waitress with a massive tip only to have her reject him and him want to reverse the charge — but this was this girl’s big chance at success! She’s busy spinning Mai Tais for fat ladies all day and then this big potentially life-changing moment gets shut down even if the tipper fully wanted it to happen? COME ON.
Also, reminder: If you don’t tip at all, you shouldn’t be a part of society.