Who is the mystery Big Spender who left a grand total of $7,000 in tips to three servers at Utah bars? No one is saying. He left enormous tips on relatively small tabs. This caused problems: point-of-sale systems aren’t set up to allow 1000% tips as a fraud prevention measure, and because 1000% tips are so rare that they get national news coverage.
If the tips were in cash, well, anyone can handle that. What’s kind of unusual is that the mystery benefactor added the massive tips to his tab, which he then charged to an AmEx Centurion card. Bar staff had to get creative to put the tip through, creating an imaginary $1000 item and adding it to the customer’s tab.
One of the generous tipper’s companions thanked workers at one bar for checking multiple times and ensuring that the man wasn’t intoxicated.
What could the motive be? A mysterious money laundering scheme? A lottery winner? Plain old generosity toward service workers? Maybe we’ll never know.
In other flinging-random-cash news, we do know the identity of the person who had dollar bills thrown from a helicopter
The Big Tipper: $5,000, $1,000 tips left at two Ogden bars [Standard-Examiner]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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