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The US$111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a US$1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it.
A stamp reading “@tipsforjesus” is next to an illegible signature.
In recent weeks, similar tabs have popped up in United States restaurants from coast to coast and even in Mexico, with tips of as much as US$10,000 and all charged to American Express.
On Sunday just after midnight, the mystery man surfaced again, this time in Fairfield, Connecticut. He left a US$5,000 gratuity on a US$112 bill at the Seagrape, an eatery where college students drop by for cheap beers by the beach.
Tips for Jesus — an Instagram account filled with photos documenting the tips — has more than 54,000 followers. The account displays photos of smiling servers holding receipts with outlandish gratuities on bills also tallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Phoenix and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Instagram feed comes with the tagline, “Doing the Lord’s work, one tip at a time”.
Three Manhattan restaurants were especially blessed over the first weekend of this month. A waiter in the restaurant of the No- Mad Hotel got a US$7,000 tip, another at The Smith restaurant was left US$3,500, and US$1,000 went to Aruj Dhawan, 25, a fashion marketing student and immigrant from India working at Bo’s Kitchen & Bar Room.
Dhawan served three guests who walked in one recent Saturday evening. Their order — a bourbon, a beer, an appetiser, a pork ragout and a pork chop — amounted to US$111.05, plus US$1,000 for the waiter.
When they were gone, “Aruj approached me, handed me the receipt and said, ‘Is this for real?’,” general manager Benjamin Cramer said.
The tipper also wrote his mobile phone number at the bottom of the tab, telling Cramer to call him if American Express had any issues with processing the receipt.
The mysterious stranger apparently knows some Spanish.
Atab dated December 5, from a resort in Punta Mita, Mexico, is posted on Instagram with the comment, “Muchas gracias Carlos!” — meaning “many thanks” to Carlos Mendez, a grinning young waiter holding a bill for US$158.11 with a tip of 13,100 Mexican pesos (HK$7, 880).


Mystery man @tipsforjesus spreads goodwill across the US

The tipper has given away as much as US$10,000. Photo: AP

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The US$111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a US$1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it.


Mystery man @tipsforjesus spreads goodwill across the US

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The US$111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a US$1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it.