Those who work in the restaurant industry know how frustrating receiving a bad tip can be. With that frustration in mind, these guys wanted to make up for all the bad customers. YouTuber MrBeast left a server a $10,000 tip as part of his “prank” series — but the cash ended up being very real.
Alaina Cluster is a nursing student who works part-time at Sup Dogs in Greenville, North Carolina. She got the shock of her life when MrBeast and crew sat at her table, ordered two waters, left a $10,000 tip, and then disappeared.
“There was just a note written on a napkin that said ‘the waters were great,’ and $10,000 in cash,” Cluster told TODAY Food on October 23rd. “I thought someone was playing a joke on me. I wasn’t that excited, I just said, ‘What? What is this?'”
Cluster decided to share the $10,000 with her coworkers, giving $200 to each server working during her shift, $100 to each server who wasn’t in that day, and keeping the remaining $800 for herself.
What Cluster didn’t know at the time was that she was just one of many unsuspecting servers who were getting big tips in the Greenville area. With a whopping $30,000 budget for the below video, which has over 2.8 million views, MrBeast and friends were handing out stacks of $100s to servers as part of a stunt.
[fm_youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6gud1voDs"]With over 8 million YouTube subscribers, MrBeast often entertains his viewers by gifting large sums of money to those in need. He’s given away tens of thousands to pizza guys, waitresses, subscribers, and the homeless, documenting it all on his channel.
[fm_youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GMakKf7G4"]Cluster called MrBeast’s random act of kindness a blessing. “I was so blessed to have that money,” she told The News & Observer. “I mean, most of us that work at Sup Dogs are broke college kids and that’s going to help me out so much. We got to all split it up, which will help a lot of people.”
Like MrBeast told Sup Dogs owner Brett Oliverio, even in unsettling times, good people are still out there doing good things. And that’s a nice thing to remember. While the internet can be a very negative place, you gotta leave it to the oh-so millennial YouTube to give us some uplifting content.
