Bill with tiny tip a hoax
NEWPORT BEACH, CA (KCAL/KCBS/CNN) – A $ 1.33 tip at True Food Kitchen in Newport Beach, CA that sparked outrage online is a hoax.
Supposedly, a wealthy banker gives his waitress a 1 percent tip on a $ 133 bill and a note saying "get a real job."
"We've been receiving hundreds of phone calls every day on top of hundreds of emails going to our corporate office," said Susan Green, general manager at True Foods.
Someone, who claimed to be a bank employee, posted the bill from True Foods online 10 days ago, dishing that their boss was a banker who only tipped 1 percent.
It nearly incited a class war when the likes of the Huffington Post, CNN, AOL, Facebook and Twitter all served it up for an insatiable social media.
"And why it went so crazy, I don't know," Green said. "We researched the credit card slips and found that there wasn't such charged."
The actual bill was for $ 33.54.
A group of people did have lunch at the restaurant, according to Green, who then took the receipt home and doctored it before posting it online. A one was added in front of the $ 33.54, then the $ 1.33 tip and the receipt was posted to a fake blog.
They also wrote in "get a real job."
The blog where the doctored receipt was posted has been taken down.
"They actually left a 20 percent tip on the $ 33.54," Green said.
Green thought after the initial false reports the frenzy would die down, but it got worse.
"I can't imagine someone would really be that bored to do it, unless they were doing it to see maybe if social media really does have that much power" she said.
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