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A Michigan waitress who received a hefty tip of $10,000 was fired days later, but the restaurant claimed her termination had nothing to do with the tip and was “purely a business decision.”
Mason Jar Cafe in Benton Harbor, located in southern Michigan, canned server Lindsey Boyd a week after an anonymous customer left a hefty $32.43 reward. According to the Detroit Free Press.
The man, who requested anonymity, left the much-talked-about tip in honor of a friend who was in town for a funeral and asked Boyd to split the gift among all the wait staff. The gifts totaled just over $1,100 per person. employee.
“I can tell you it had nothing to do with the tip. She took the tip in full, but didn’t pay taxes on it (the company did). Yes, she paid the tip for the man who left the tip.” We shared tips as requested,” said husband and wife owners Able Martinez and Jamie Cousins. he wrote on Facebook.
Days after receiving the large payment, Boyd said in a now-deleted Facebook post that drama began to unfold inside the restaurant and management asked her to take that Sunday off as a mental health day. Added a quote from the post.
Boyd said management then contacted her on Sunday night and told her to take the next day off.
The waitress sent a message to the restaurant on Monday asking if she had been told “professionally not to come back again.”
She was fired over the phone that Tuesday.
“In one week, I was such a wonderful, hard-working employee and wonderful mother…I couldn’t have asked for a better human being,” Boyd’s post said. “Right now, I’m unemployed for the first time since I was 15.”
Restaurant management later disputed Boyd’s claims, insisting that the termination was unrelated to the tipoff or the aftermath, but that labor laws prevented them from going into detail.
“We really care about our staff,” the couple added. “We’ve had the same staff for five or six years. We have a female college student who goes home every summer, and it’s been four years now. Every summer, at the end of the season, we take our staff up north. We’re doing everything we can to help them by donating to their university funds, keeping them employed during the coronavirus pandemic, and we need your help to ensure we don’t lose any of our staff.
“I know there’s a lot of talk about him letting her go because of the tip, but that’s not logical,” Cousins said. he told Wood TV. “We have staff who have been with us for years and college students who come back every summer. We give our staff one opportunity after another. That’s why we have people quitting for no reason. It’s clear that we can’t let that happen.”
Cousins added that the decision was not made lightly and that laying off employees is something the restaurant is trying to avoid.
“In this case, it was purely a business decision.”
The fired employee said he “drove out of town this morning to spend time with my family and get away” after a difficult week. According to WNDU.
