Happy 2020: Server at restaurant gets $2,020 tip

Danielle Franzoni holds a receipt from a customer with a $2,020 tip included at Thunder Bay River Restaurant. Image: Julie Riddle/The News via AP

The restaurant bill was $23 (about P1,100). But the tip at a small-town restaurant in Michigan was much larger: $2,020 (over P102,000).

“Things like this don’t happen to people like me,” server Danielle Franzoni told The Alpena News.

Franzoni, 31, got the tip while working Sunday at Thunder Bay River Restaurant in Alpena. The credit card receipt said “Happy New Year. 2020 Tip Challenge.”

Franzoni, a single mother, could not believe the number, but her manager assured her the tip was legitimate.

She said she was living in a homeless shelter a year ago. Franzoni plans to use the money to reinstate her driver’s license and build savings.

“They don’t know nothing about my story. They don’t know where I’ve come from. They don’t know how hard it’s been,” Franzoni said of the couple who left the tip. “They’re really just doing this out of the kindness of their heart.”

Franzoni later went to a restaurant and left a $20.20 (about P1,000) tip.

“That was my pay-it-forward,” she said, smiling. “I couldn’t do the other one.” RGA

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