“I want to start a group to go to breakfast, 10 of us, and we each bring $100 to tip the waiter,” Richard Brooks wrote on Facebook.
Roberto Rivas, right, with Richard Brooks, the founder of the $1,000 Breakfast Club, in June. Brooks and other club members left Rivas a $1,600 tip at an IHOP in Norwood, Mass. Roberto Rivas teaches Spanish full-time at a local high school, and on weekends, he waits tables at two restaurants, including an IHOP, so he can pay his bills.
“Sixteen hundred dollars is unheard of,” Rivas said. “Servers work hard, but a tip this large is rare. I’m still amazed they wanted to surprise me like this.” While he was attending law school in his 20s, he said he worked as a waiter on campus at Boston University for five years to help pay his bills.
“The Thousand Dollar Breakfast Club. Anyone can go,” he continued. “We will find a small place where the server will be shocked to get $1,000. It will be a fun quick morning breakfast and will blow the mind of the server!”Ten people — a few friends and some people he didn’t know who saw his post on Facebook — showed up at the first breakfast in March at an IHOP in Framingham, Mass., while another three who couldn’t make it each sent him $100, Brooks said.
About 20 people now belong to the club, but not everyone can make every meeting, he said. Some of the members didn’t know each other until they started bringing $100 bills to breakfast.“They chose to come and give away $100 to make someone happy, so it’s the least I can do,” he said.“We don’t know what’s going on in the server’s day — isn’t that the kind of person you would want to help?” he said. “If bad service happens, we’ll give them the money anyway to help improve their day.
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