Restaurant Regular Leaves $2000 Tip After Being Given Free Gumbo
Good customer service can lead to great tips — but this gratuity left restaurant staff stunned and speechless.
Good customer service can lead to great tips — but this gratuity left restaurant staff stunned and speechless.
Just seven months after Matt and Danielle Davis got married, Matt crashed his motorcycle ended up in a coma. Though the odds of him awaking were bleak, the new wife held on to hope and was rewarded.
An Oklahoma restaurant owner noticed someone had rummaged through her dumpster for food so she posted notes on the property to invite the hungry person in for a fee meal, anytime.
The winner of Philadelphia's "Big Brother of the Century award," Tom McElvogue, has been a mentor to many kids over the years. This one was very special.
This disabled teen may not have found the technology to help her communicate if she didn't love Justin Bieber so much.
A 25-year-old server, Claire Hudson, got a tip and a note that melted her heart. She didn't know it at the time, but she became part of a heartfelt tradition to honor a brother's lost sibling.
UN Women, the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, announced yesterday it has tapped British actress Emma Watson as Goodwill Ambassador. Known for playing the leading role of "Hermione Granger" in the Harry Potter saga, Watson has been involved with the promotion of girls' education for several years.
"Chase the Chill" has become a social media movement that inspires people to leave warm scarves, often with a note, in public places for anyone to take. Scarves draped on trees, posts, signs, and other public locations first appeared in downtown Easton, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 2010, but the practice has spread to cities throughout the US and Canada.
JK Rowling penned a hand-written letter in purple ink to a teenager who found strength in the words of a Harry Potter film after her family was killed. Cassidy Stay, 15, from Texas, quoted Rowling's fictional headmaster Albus Dumbledore at her family's memorial service
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is hoping to tap into America's philanthropy and influence as she launches the U.S. arm of her nonprofit Lumos that works to keep disadvantaged children worldwide out of orphanages when they already have their families.
American Airlines has finally admitted that Severus Snape is not in fact dead, but currently taking boarding passes at this New York airport.
Harry Potter fan Shona Macleod, 15, decided to contact JK Rowling in her effort to raise £950 for a park bench where she could talk to her pal Kieran Goulding since his death in a car crash. The teen was absolutely amazed to receive a full set of signed Harry Potter books along with a handwritten letter.
The printing for the final Harry Potter book will not only be the biggest, but also the greenest. 65 percent of the paper will come from forestlands that are managed in a socially and environmentally responsible way.
A UK school in a deprived area has jumped from the bottom 25 per cent of schools nationally to just outside the top 5 per cent over the last three years after letting pupils pick a Harry Potter theme for lessons."
Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, scientists at the University of Rochester have recently developed a simple and inexpensive lens device that hides objects from view. With the basic goal of taking light and have it pass around something as if it isn't there, the researchers have created the first simple device that can do three-dimensional, continuously multidirectional cloaking.
After a four-year campaign by the fan activist group the Harry Potter Alliance and its favorite author, J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. has relented and announced they would stop buying cocoa from a company known for its poor record on human rights and child labor.
J.K. Rowling isn't done with the Muggles yet – watch the movie trailer for our new magical hero Newt Scamander.
A reformed skinhead, Bryon Widner was desperate to rid himself of the racist tattoos that covered his face — so desperate that he turned to former enemies for help, and was willing to endure months of pain.
A UK grandmother who lost all her haor was inspired to get a tattoo that resembles dark curly locks, after becoming depressed and frustrated by wigs and hats. She says it's changed her life and made her happier than she's ever been.
California researchers have developed a temporary tattoo that both extracts and measures the level of glucose, a promising step forward in noninvasive testing for patients with diabetes.