NICE!!!
The owner of the Skillets restaurant chain said he wasn’t sure who left the generous tip, but hoped to find out soon.
A Florida restaurant owner is hoping to track down a generous customer who offered up $10,000 in cash as a tip to employees.
Businesses have been struggling ever since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered restaurant dining rooms to close across the state on March 20 as a means of stopping the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
The move has forced Ross Edlund, who owns the Skillets restaurant chain in Naples, to lay off about 90 percent of his 200 employees across his nine restaurants, according to the Naples Daily News.
So the anonymous customer’s hefty tip — which came one day before the governor’s order — was much appreciated for the 20 employees at that Skillets location in Naples, as they each took home $500.
“We don’t know who he was yet. I’m trying to figure it out…….[adding that he thinks it may be a regular named either Bill or Bob]……It’s funny because we have regulars who have been coming in forever, and they’re our friends but we don’t always know their names. We know their faces, their orders, their favorite tables, but we don’t know exactly who they are.”
Ross Edlund
Restaurant Owner
Edlund told the newspaper that he had to close the Skillets restaurant in Venice due to a lack of business, though the other eight locations remain open with just two or three employees at each
Florida Restaurant-Goer Leaves $10K Tip One Day Before Owner Forced to Lay Off 90% of Employees
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