Celebrity1 min(s) read
Published 17:35 19 Nov 2020 GMT
Donnie Walberg has gone viral on social media this week, after leaving an astoundingly generous tip for a waitress at a restaurant.
According to The Daily Mail, The Band Of Brothers and Blue Bloods actor left a tip of a whopping $2,020 on a $35.27 lunchtime bill at The Marshland - a restaurant in the town of Plymouth in Massachusetts, on November 7.
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The restaurant thanked Walberg for his incredible display of altruism by uploading a picture of his check to its official Instagram account.
A spokesperson for the eatery captioned the post:
"A very special thank you to our friend @donniewahlberg! When asked about it all he said was 'who’s up next?!'"
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The post has managed to accrue over 1,200 likes and hundreds of comments from other Instagram users as of the time of writing, who were almost all touched by Walberg's kind gesture.
For example, one Instagram user wrote: "Wow. How awesome. Lucky waitress. Hopefully she or he shared with the others. Amazing kindness and generosity. [sic]"
In a later interview with People Magazine on the subject of Walberg's tip, Marty Finch, the owner of the restaurant, stated that the waitress in question was named Denise.
Finch stated: "Donnie has been here before in the past and he always asks for [Denise]. He had his normal order: steak tips with some grilled asparagus and some poached eggs. She always knows what he wants.
"When he left he just said: 'Denise, you’re all set. The payment is on the table.' She always says he’s a very good tipper anyway but her jaw dropped, to say the least when she saw that amount of tip."
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He continued:
"Me, as the owner, we’ve struggled these last eight months. We’ve really tried to keep these doors open. We actually closed for a couple of months because it just wasn’t looking good.
"But we reopened, and it’s been a blessing that we did. We’re kind of like a homecooked-food-neighborhood-type restaurant, so it’s just been a really good feeling all around."
Finch also added that Denise split it with her coworkers and even donated some of it to charity herself, spreading around some of the wealth that Walberg had chosen to share with her.
