Local Silver Diner Servers Get Nearly $5K In Tips From Jolly Customers

COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — The Christmas tone is live and good astatine a edifice successful Howard County.

Two servers picking up checks astatine a Silver Diner successful Columbia recovered unusually generous tips from charitable customers this vacation season.

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Tori Locher got $4,000 successful currency aft serving 1 of her regular customers. She said helium came successful to eat, left, and past returned with a immense gift.

“He was conscionable like, this is simply a acquisition to you. It’s not a tip. It’s my acquisition to you,” Locher said. “I benignant of froze up due to the fact that I didn’t cognize what to say. I stood determination and was like, ‘Are you sure?”

Roxana Salinas, different server astatine the diner, got a $910 extremity earlier this week. She said a ample radical gave her the wealth aft coming successful for coffee.

“I started crying,” Salinas said. “I got truthful affectional and they hugged maine and they accidental you marque america cry.”

Hospitality Manager Melissa Green said these gifts travel astatine a truly cardinal clip for servers, who proceed to conflict done the pandemic to marque ends meet.

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“For the assemblage to measurement up and instrumentality attraction of our radical that person been moving passim this full time, it’s specified a large happening to see,” Green said.

Salinas plans to nonstop the wealth to her household successful El Salvador.

“I said ma this is for you, truthful you tin cook,” Salinas said. “You tin person wealth for Christmas and my dad, you know, my niece, my nephew. She was truthful blessed for me.”

Locher plans to usage the wealth to assistance her wage for school.

“I’m hoping to spell backmost to school, due to the fact that I was teaching peculiar needs. I privation to spell backmost to schoolhouse to grow my horizons. May commencement a concern and everything,” Locher said. “There’s a batch going connected successful the satellite with the pandemic going connected and I conscionable anticipation that everybody helps each different financially but besides similar emotionally and everything done it.”

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The unit said the generosity doesn’t halt there. They said they’ve had different customers travel successful and wage for different customers’ meals successful the past fewer weeks, too.

Jessica Albert