"Purely Business Decision": US Restaurant Fires Staff Who Got $10,000 Tip On $32.43 Bill

A customer named Mark left the $10,000 tip "in memory of a friend who had recently passed and he was in town for the funeral."

The US waitress who received an incredible $10,000 tip on a customer's $32.43 bill on February 5, was fired a few days later, however, the restaurant has now stated that her firing was unrelated to the hefty tip and was "purely a business decision", as per a report in the New York Post.

The Mason Jar Cafe in Benton Harbor, located in southern Michigan fired Linsey Boyd a week after she received the tip. As per the outlet, a customer named Mark left it "in memory of a friend who had recently passed and he was in town for the funeral." The money was split nine ways among the coworkers, who each took home a little over $1,100 each.

Ms Boyd claimed trouble had started to emerge inside the restaurant days after receiving the substantial tip and that management had ordered her to take that Sunday off as a mental health day. She went on to say that management had contacted her late on Sunday and instructed her to take Monday off as well. She then sent a message to the restaurant on Monday to ask if she was being asked "in a professional way to not come back." "One week I'm such an amazing, hardworking employee, awesome mother ... couldn't have happened to a better person. Now, I'm without a job, for the first time since I was 15 years old," her now-deleted Facebook post said.