Customer leaves $5600 tip at Ohio restaurant: 'Amazing gesture of kindness'
The diner asked that the tip be divided up among the staff, whether they were working or not
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An Ohio restaurant is thanking a customer for his “heartfelt generosity” after he left a $5,600 tip.
A diner at Souk Mediterranean Kitchen & Bar in Toledo left the huge tip on Sunday night, asking that it be divided among all the staff whether they were working or not, according to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page. The restaurant didn’t identify the big tipper, just calling him “Billy” and sharing a photo of the receipt.
“What an amazing gesture of kindness to my employees,” chef Moussa Salloukh wrote.
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That meant all 28 of the restaurant’s workers each got $200, a big boost in what Salloukh wrote has been a much slower December than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is not an ordinary December,” Salloukh wrote. “Normally this is a month when our employees work extra and guests tip generously. December is a month for them to earn money to buy family gifts, put a bit into savings and take care of bills or repairs that have been lingering. With COVID restrictions and guidelines, that was not going to happen this year.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ohio is requiring masks and social distancing inside restaurants and bars. The state also instituted a 10 p.m. end-time for indoor dining last month as it looks to the slow the spread of COVID-19.
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More than 7,000 Ohio residents have died from COVID-19, and the virus has infected another 520,000 in the state alone. Gov. Mike DeWine said on Twitter Tuesday that a record number of Ohioans had been hospitalized with COVID-19.
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The outbreak is so severe in Ohio that the state added itself to its list of states with a travel advisory earlier this month. Health officials are recommending that residents stay home whenever possible.
For restaurants like Souk, that means a lot less business than usual. And that means its customer’s generosity helps even more than usual.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“So this heartfelt generosity was deeply needed and very appreciated,” Salloukh wrote.