Waitress Gets $10K Tip After Racist Receipt

[Contrary1]

"A Red Lobster waitress, who said a customer left her a receipt with a racist slur, has received the tip of a lifetime, thanks to a fundraising from online supporters.

Toni Christina Jenkins of Franklin, Tenn., said she was shocked when she saw a receipt on the table with "none" on the "Tip" line and the N-word on the "Total" line.

"I was just stunned that it happened," Jenkins, 19, said. "It's not something that you think in our generation would actually take place, so I was just blown away by it."

After posting a picture of the receipt to Facebook Sept. 10, her story sparked outrage online, prompting a California man to take action. Matthew Hanson, founder of AddictingInfo.org, heard Jenkins' story and started an online fundraiser called "Tips for Toni" that collected $10,749 in place of Jenkins' non-tip on the bill for $44.53..."

More: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/red-lobster-waitress-gets-10k-tip-racist-receipt-152557964--abc-news-Recipes.html

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I absolutely love this story.

[Cha]

2. I love AddictingInfo.org.. it seems like their style!

thanks Contrary!

Good on Toni Jenkins!

[NYC_SKP]

3. Recommended. (nt)

[aronmatt3]

4. Good

Wow, that is nice for her as she has made a lot more money than she could have earned in some months.

[MichaelKelley]

5. Nice for her

I am glad that someone's bad has helped someone to make some extra money in a good way and without harming anyone. I am glad that people are there to help always.

[Unknown Beatle]

6. About Red Lobster

"We are disgusted by the language used on this guest check and it has no place in our restaurant or anywhere else," a Red Lobster representative said in a statement to ABC News. "We were in constant communication with [our server] throughout this situation and have extended her a high degree of respect and caring for what happened. No one should have to endure what our employee went through."

How about giving your employees a living wage instead of extending a high degree of respect and caring.

Anyway, I'm really glad there's people out there that care about their fellow human beings. She deserves that money plus lots more.

[Egnever]

10. I thought they fired her

For posting it online...

[indepat]

7. Sorta makes me sad that my ggggrand-father on my sir-name line had migrated from North Carolina to

Tennessee in the 1820s. This overt racism makes me ashamed for all Tennesseans that such individuals still reside among us.

[Egnever]

8. Awesome!

didn't she get fired though?

Hopefully this will help her out till she can find other work.

[Egnever]

9. I wonder if the tool that left that

is aware this happened.

I sure hope so and that he feels like an idiot now.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Follow the link at the bottom of the OP and read how haters hate

Scroll to the comments.

Aren't those poster such cuties?

[ismnotwasm]

12. And they are no doubt breeding and adding to the gene pool

Ick

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. Please, please, please tell me the scumbag who left that

message has heard about this!

[Boudica the Lyoness]

14. I just saw this today

There are always two sides to a story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467626/Man-accused-writing-n---check-denies-writing-hires-handwriting-expert-up.html