People Who've Waited On Celebrities Are Revealing Who's A Good Tipper And Who Isn't, And It's Verrry Surprising

Throughout the year, we shared stories from work workers who waited connected celebrated radical and revealed how overmuch they got tipped. Well, adjacent much readers shared their ain personage extremity experiences. Here are each of those stories:

The radical who shared their stories allegedly talk from idiosyncratic encounters. Obviously, we weren't determination erstwhile they happened, truthful consciousness escaped to instrumentality them with a atom of salt.

1. "Bruce Willis ever tipped highly good and signed autographs for astir everyone. Great guy! I'm truly atrocious his wellness is deteriorating. Love you, Bruce!"

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—Anonymous, 75, Las Vegas

2. "Miley Cyrus is not lone benignant but besides debased maintenance, and she tips precise well. She came into my edifice successful Nashville with a precise ample enactment and ordered veggie fajitas. Nothing changed oregon modified, got everything conscionable arsenic it came. Asked for a container for her leftovers. Tipped 200% and was a sweetheart."

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3. "I waited connected Brooke Shields with 2 guests astatine a edifice successful NYC backmost successful 1980. She had conscionable been successful Blue Lagoon, and genuinely was America’s sweetheart astatine the time. She was pleasant and cheerful. She near a 30% tip, and I felt large astir having served her."

4. "I had a person who waited connected Jennifer Lopez close aft she got super-famous. She and her entourage allegedly ran my person ragged, insulted him, held up the array for 3+ hours, and wholly stiffed him connected the tip. He was a large server, and she was a nightmare."

5. "I person waited connected aggregate celebrities successful Park City during the Sundance Film Festival. Most of them were precise bully and tipped generously. My biggest tip, percentage-wise, came from Steve Carell. He and his household were benignant and down-to-earth and were a pleasance to serve."

6. "Jay-Z came into a nine wherever I was moving vessel service. Not lone was helium rude, but helium besides did not tip."

7. "I served Rob Lowe astatine One Fifth successful NYC successful the aboriginal ’80s. He near a $100 extremity connected a tiny bill. He was funny, precise nice, and respectful to maine and the staff."

8. "I was moving arsenic a cocktail waitress successful the '80s successful Merrillville, IN, erstwhile Irene Cara was the headliner. She came successful with respective others a fewer minutes earlier closing. They ordered piña coladas, daiquiris, and a assortment of different fancy drinks. As I moved towards them, 1 of the radical brushed up against my tray and knocked the full happening over! I cleaned up the mess, got them each caller drinks, and didn’t get location until aft 4 a.m. They near a ZERO tip!"

9. "Back successful the '80s, I was a doorman astatine a posh Philadelphia hotel. Larry Holmes was an expected guest. Upon his arrival, helium checked his bags and went to the edifice restaurant. He was a truly bully guy. They had a necktie argumentation for men astatine the restaurant. My idiot British bosses didn’t admit him and asked him to permission the restaurant. Larry was upset, had maine get his bags, gave maine $50, and went to the edifice crossed the street. My brag had the nervus to beryllium huffy astatine maine for not telling them who helium was."

10. "Cole and Dylan Sprouse tipped maine 30% the different day. They were my lowest attraction array each night."

11. "My coworker served Jack Black, and I helped tally the nutrient to the table. He tipped $300 connected a tab of astir $500. He was besides precise bully to everyone, said goodnight to maine connected his mode out."

12. "I flew Bob Hope and his precise bully woman from MI to 2 airports successful NY. They were precise benignant and gracious to maine and the different pilot. A week later, we some received sets of his signature 'Thanks for the Memory' cocktail glasses."

13. "I served Dave Chappelle a fewer times erstwhile I was a teen. This was during his Chappelle Show run. He tipped maine $40 to assistance load his groceries into his car. I worked astatine a market store arsenic a bagger."

14. "Waited connected E-40 and his woman a fewer times astatine Cattlemen’s years ago. I’m a immense fan, but I ne'er asked for anything. They were ever humble, low-maintenance, and generously near 40-50%."

15. "I was a server successful Midtown Manhattan adjacent Times Square for years. I've served a batch of celebrated people. The worst tipper is Jane Fonda. She came into our tiny Irish pub with Sally Field for lunch. Everyone was younger oregon not American, truthful nary 1 other recognized them. I grew up being made to ticker aged films by my mum, truthful I knew them, but nary 1 bothered them. Fonda paid the measure and near a large zero successful the extremity part."

16. "When I was conscionable retired of precocious schoolhouse successful the aboriginal '90s, I worked arsenic a bagger astatine a market store wherever John Lithgow often shopped. Most of the time, helium came successful unsocial oregon with his kids aft a time of skiing. He was precise shy and precise nice. One day, helium came successful with his woman and kids, and I bagged their groceries and helped them load them into their car. After I loaded their groceries into their car, his woman thanked maine and gave maine a 4th arsenic a tip. Later, I noticed it was a Canadian quarter."

17. "I worked astatine the Palm Springs Spa successful 1975, and Marvin Gaye was determination for 2 weeks. I worked astatine the outdoor excavation area, and I would acceptable him up with towels connected a lounge chair. He didn’t springiness maine 1 penny."

18. "I was a taxicab operator successful Columbus, Ohio, successful the mid-'70s. I was dispatched to Stouffers University Inn for a idiosyncratic going to the airport. It turned retired to beryllium Eric Clapton. He was precise gracious, and helium gave maine a $100 measure connected a $12 fare to the charter airplane hangar astatine Port Columbus."

19. "I was a pit brag astatine the Hard Rock casino successful the mid-90s. Jennifer Lopez was joined to Ben Affleck (for the archetypal time). Ben Affleck was a large tipper, ever giving $100 for a escaped drink. Once helium placed a $100 spot connected the server's tray and Lopez called the server back, picked up the $100 chip, and tossed a $5 spot connected the tray."

20. "Post Malone is simply a ace bully tipper. He usually gives 50–100% tips. Very polite and all-around large guest."

21. "Probably my favourite impermanent of notoriety was Wes Anderson. He was incredibly kind, and I felt profoundly acknowledged arsenic a chap quality being, not conscionable a portion of the mechanics of his meal. I don’t retrieve the percent helium tipped, but it was precise generous."

22. "Martin Starr took maine to a section bar/grill with a clump of formed and unit from Tulsa King (I was moving connected the show). We ordered a batch of nutrient and drinks, and Martin picked up the tab, which was astir $2,500. However, the paper didn't spell done owed to fraud reasons. Nevertheless, helium got connected the phone, verified it was him to his bank, and past paid the bill. He near a 30% oregon higher extremity for the server who helped us. He really asked maine to adhd it up arsenic helium couldn't rather work the receipt. He was ever ace saccharine and nice, and helium often ordered crystal pick trucks and worldly to travel to the workplace for each the unit to devour connected him."

23. "Chuck Norris gave maine $100 extremity for a vessel of h2o astatine Harrah's Atlantic City."

24. "Scary Spice (aka Mel B) ordered a $25 vessel of wine, ugh, and near a mediocre tip."

25. "I waited connected Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz erstwhile they were dating. They came successful with 5 different radical for drinks and immoderate apps. The measure was astir $500. Ashlee paid and tipped maine $200. Plus, she, Pete, and their friends were each truthful affable and down to earth. Before she near (and aft she paid), I fto Ashlee cognize that I was a instrumentality of her music. She was precise blessed to perceive it, thanked me, and gave maine a large hug."

26. "Michael Rooker from Guardians of the Galaxy and The Walking Dead tipped maine $300 connected a $100 measure astatine the barroom I worked at. He’s truthful comic and likable. A stand-up guy."

27. "In the aboriginal 2000s, I worked astatine a good eating edifice successful the Colosseum Forum Shops successful Las Vegas connected the strip. Jay-Z and his entourage came successful and took up my full section. Everything went fine, they didn't instrumentality anything. They weren't overly friendly, but that was fine. We did not enactment the automatic gratuity for parties of 8 oregon much connected determination due to the fact that helium was a celebrity. The measure was astir $5,000, and helium near perfectly nary tip. Not a azygous penny. My mediocre manager felt truthful atrocious for maine that helium gave maine a 20% extremity connected the full measure retired of the kitty."

28. "Kevin Hart tipped maine FAT the different day. $300 connected an $80 bill."

29. "50 Cent. He didn’t permission capable currency for the measure and tried to locomotion out. I had to tally aft him and fto him cognize helium was short. He seemed frustrated and rapidly gave maine conscionable capable to screen the bill. The extremity was little than 10 cents."

30. "I erstwhile waited connected David Lee Roth. He came successful with a mates of different guys I didn't recognize. Only 4 different tables were seated astatine the time. I was the lone server connected the floor. That antheral is simply a unit of nature. Loud, yes, but someway not annoyingly so. Effortlessly drew maine in, the different servers inactive doing broadside work, the bussers, the bartender, and the different guests. Utterly charming and the most charismatic idiosyncratic I've ever shared a country with. Clearly, erstwhile he's successful the room, everyone is riding the Dave wave. He paid everyone's measure and tipped 100% connected apical of it. I've ne'er walked retired of closing a luncheon much upbeat."

31. "I had a person who served Carmelo Anthony. He tipped her a fewer 100 dollars connected a beauteous tiny measure and past walked into the room and gave everyone $100."

32. "I served Dave Chappelle. He's incredibly respectful and polite! He referred to maine by my sanction and tipped much than 100% successful cash."

33. "Drew Carey is simply a fantastic person. He's funny, polite, loves to beryllium social, and is precise affable overall. He snuck into the edifice I worked astatine successful Vegas, had luncheon with his friends who were waiting for him. The measure was $260 and helium rounded up to $500."

34. "Tracy Morgan utilized to travel into wherever I worked. He is conscionable similar his characters connected TV, boisterous and funny, making a scene. And helium would permission a 50% tip. Such a bully guy."

35. "When I was 14 and moving astatine a tiny Vietnamese edifice successful Orange County, Keanu Reeves and his woman came in, and aft I served them, they near maine an envelope of currency afloat of mostly hundreds. They near maine an envelope a week for astir 5 months, with random radical dropping them off. Each envelope had a small enactment successful it that said inspirational worldly similar 'We’re inactive rooting for you' and 'We’re truly arrogant of you, support pushing.'"

36. "Around 2007, successful Ryan Gosling’s aboriginal days, helium was successful my hometown and stopped by the pizza spot with immoderate others. He came successful towards closing time, but rounded up a $55 cheque to $100 and took pics with everyone determination who wanted one."

37. "Wolfman Jack was 1 of my regulars, backmost successful the day. He'd extremity $100 connected a $20 luncheon summons each azygous clip helium came in."

38. "Rupert Grint comes successful with his woman and baby. They’re precise polite, support to themselves, support things tidy, and extremity 25% oregon more."

39. "Chad OchoCinco asked maine however overmuch my rent was and tipped maine that."

40. "Trevor Lawerence is simply a large tipper and wide precise kind! Like clockwork, this antheral would travel successful and bid 10 pizzas from maine each Wednesday. At 1 point, helium asked to conscionable the idiosyncratic who made his 'fantastic pizzas' — helium handed maine $100, and helium tipped the to-go people/host similar 100%. Every clip helium came successful aft that, helium would question to maine done the expo model and occasionally descent maine immoderate cash."

41. "Kevin James near maine a $230 extremity connected a $330 bill. So, helium tin bash nary incorrect successful my eyes."

42. "Alaska from RuPaul's Drag Race tipped $700 connected a $200 measure due to the fact that she and her spouse were successful the edifice for 3 hours."

43. "The lone personage I’ve waited connected was Sheryl Underwood. She was incredibly saccharine and tipped 200%."

44. "John Malkovich was a regular astatine a section edifice I worked in, and helium was ever ace kind, precise quiet, and tipped generously, 30% oregon a spot more. Just wanted to dine softly with his partner."

45. "Shaq visited a fewer years ago. He paid for everyone's meals successful the restaurant, tipped his server $300, and tipped each the different unit $100 each. Really astonishing guy."

46. "Elvis came successful with immoderate officers and stayed implicit an hour. They had a repast and a fewer beers. Elvis near $5,000 positive a ample tip. Other officers said helium did it each the time."

47. "I waited connected Joe Rogan astir 10 years ago. He was quiet, polite, and precise low-maintenance. He near a $100 extremity connected a $30 tab."

48. "My fellow and I did DoorDash 1 nighttime and ended up delivering poke bowls to Victor Wembanyama from the San Antonio Spurs hoops team. His repast was astir $70, and helium lived precise far, and it took everlastingly for idiosyncratic to unfastened the gross successful his gated community. He near nary tip."

49. "I was a bartender for a nationwide steak edifice successful Atlanta. Cam Newton came successful 1 nighttime with a fewer people. This was erstwhile helium was inactive playing football, and the Falcons were going to play the Super Bowl. He wasn’t affable and was truly aloof. He ordered immoderate nutrient to go. He tipped well, though, close astir $100 connected astir $300 worthy of food."

50. "Tina Fey was the worst. She was demanding and smoked a cigaret astatine the outdoor array adjacent aft being asked to stop. She near little than 10% for the tip."

51. "Carlos Santana is the astir humble and respectful personage I've ever served. He ever tips $100. If helium is with his family, it’s double, sometimes triple that."

52. "I worked astatine Bennigan’s Restaurant successful Boston earlier the 2000s. Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Horace Grant came successful 1 night. I can’t retrieve however overmuch the measure was, but Scottie Pippen paid it. He did not permission a tip. At that moment, I came up with the nickname 'No Tippin Pippen.'"

53. "John McEnroe had 1 portion and tipped maine $100 successful 1982."

54. "I was a server astatine a edifice successful Central Park. Naomi Campbell came successful with her entourage of astir 8 people, and they were highly demanding. Naomi ne'er spoke to me; idiosyncratic ever had to talk for her. As I was checking successful connected them to spot however their dessert was, Naomi was handing her telephone to the idiosyncratic crossed from her, who was successful beforehand of me, and it got dropped connected a lava barroom connected the table. Somehow, she thought it was my responsibility (the lone clip she said thing straight to me), and I was told by a subordinate of her entourage that I needed to permission the array due to the fact that she was upset. They near $10 connected a immense check. By acold 1 of the rudest groups of radical I served, celebrated oregon otherwise."

55. "My coworker served Ludacris once, and helium was seemingly good until the end, wherever helium asked the server if the edifice was going to instrumentality attraction of the measure for him. They lone agreed to due to the fact that helium said he'd extremity the server. Pretty afloat of himself."

56. "I utilized to beryllium a work manager astatine a cafe concatenation that Harry Connick Jr. and his household would travel to erstwhile a period oregon so. They were quiet, low-key, and polite. He indispensable person had a location successful the country due to the fact that nary 1 ever truly bothered him. I don't retrieve however overmuch helium tipped exactly, but it was ever astatine slightest 25%."

57. "I served Lewis Black meal aft 1 of his shows. He was polite, tipped astatine slightest 30% and portion I don't similar to hound celebrities, different guests came and talked to him, and helium was truthful benignant and unfastened to conversation. Great lawsuit and a genuinely benignant dude."

58. "Love Billy Joel’s music, but I met him and helium wasn’t affable astatine all. My lad worked successful a North Shore edifice that helium regularly frequented, and helium was a 20% tipper, that’s all."

59. "I worked astatine a barroom connected the Jersey Shore for 10 years. Bruce Springsteen is ever the astir humble and low-key; helium would propulsion up connected his motorcycle conscionable trying to person Patron connected the rocks unnoticed. He would usually lone get done 1 drink/drink and a fractional max until idiosyncratic spotted him but ever near $100 tip. I adjacent worked a mates of his backstage parties arsenic good and ever near a FAT extremity for everyone from information to the kitchen."

60. "At a erstwhile spot I worked, I waited connected Emily and Felicity Blunt, John Krasinski, and Stanley Tucci. Nothing went incorrect with their meal, and they were bully enough, but Stanley near little than a 10% extremity connected their $500 bill."

61. "Cassandra Peterson came to The Abbey, and her hairsbreadth was bleached retired for the summer, truthful I didn’t admit her immediately. Her person made a gag astir her being Elvira, who 'lived up successful a acheronian castle successful the Hills.' We laughed, she paid, and they left. She tipped maine 150% of the measure which was astir $50 bucks. It inactive didn’t dawn connected maine she was Elvira until the algorithm showed maine an interrogation of Cassandra Peterson and her mannerisms and the mode she spoke gave her away."

62. "I was bartending years agone and had Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls astatine the bar. He was rude and complained astir everything — though helium ate everything successful beforehand of him. The measure came to astir $425 — helium near maine $2. This is wherefore helium is called No Tippin’ Pippen."

63. "San Francisco Giants erstwhile archetypal baseman J.T. Snow and his begetter were sitting extracurricular astatine a array successful Spanish Bay Resort astatine Pebble Beach. J.T. ordered a Coke and charged it to his room. He near maine a $100 tip."

64. "My partner, who is simply a classically trained enforcement chef, was hired to crook astir a struggling steak location successful Ennis, Montana. I was the play front-of-house manager and a server connected weeknights. Ennis is simply a alert sportfishing Mecca truthful we had guests from each implicit the world, but my favourite was David Letterman. He usually came successful connected a weeknight erstwhile we weren’t wholly out-of-control busy, sometimes with his lad oregon his manager, sometimes by himself. He ever had the aforesaid meal, a elemental but delicious pasta and a solid of wine. He would interact with the locals and was conscionable a delight to hold on. Never had immoderate complaints oregon expected to beryllium treated arsenic being special. And helium ever near a $100 tip. I would hold connected him erstwhile I was the lone server connected but would fto the different server instrumentality him erstwhile I was fortunate capable to person one…felt similar I should stock the wealth! Good memories of that edifice and of Ennis."

65. "I retrieve seeing Bill Nye walking into the edifice I was moving astatine (at the time). It was a creaseless service, and helium seemed to bask his food. I came to cod the measure and saw that helium had tipped maine $40 for a $40 meal. It made my year."

66. "Jeffrey Star and Nikita Dragun came into The Abbey and demanded comped vessel work for themselves. I served them and their crew, and they near NOTHING. It was tacky arsenic hell."

67. "Maria Shriver and her daughter, Katherine Schwarzenegger, ate a large brunch astatine a edifice I utilized to enactment astatine successful Chicago with possibly 10 different ladies. They weren’t rude, but they were incredibly needy and demanding. Their measure was adjacent to $1,000. Maria paid, but she didn’t permission thing for a tip."

68. "10 years ago, I worked astatine a edifice successful Phoenix, AZ. I was the server for Guy Fieri. He had his lad with him, and of people his entourage. Guy had a vodka Sprite, and his lad had a Sprite, positive nutrient and portion for his entourage. It was respective 100 dollars. When it was clip to adjacent the tab, I was wholly stiffed of a tip. They lone paid the tab with nary tip!"

69. "Not a restaurant, but erstwhile I was moving astatine a movie theatre successful assemblage we were told to clasp a mates of seats for a 'big celebrity' that was coming successful to ticker The Fighter. It’s not thing we usually did (it was earlier you could reserve seats online), but we kept the spots unfastened nonetheless. Turns retired it was Dwyane Wade. He tipped maine and my person some $20, which was chill and unexpected!"

70. "I erstwhile served John Cena astatine a taqueria. Not lone did helium not extremity me, helium conscionable ghosted connected the measure altogether!"

71. "Eugene Levy and his household tipped maine 22% of their bill."

72. "Ross Matthews asked for an worker discount with a radical of friends portion astatine The Abbey/Pink Pony Club (obviously, helium is not an employee) and past tipped connected the discounted total. I should person fixed him discounted service!"

73. And finally, "Nelly tipped the bartender who served him nothing."

Responses person been edited for length/clarity.

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