{"id":437307,"date":"2026-08-19T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:18:11","slug":"customer-mails-50-from-tx-to-la-fearing-he-forgot-to-tip-at-famous-deli-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437307\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Mails $50 From TX To LA, Fearing He Forgot To Tip At Famous Deli"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I recognize how important these tips are to workers. That’s why I’m sending these $50 just in case I forgot to include the tip.”<\/p>\n

Aug 18, 2026 11:56 PM PDT<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 A customer at the iconic Langer’s Delicatessen went the extra mile \u2014 or rather the extra 800 miles \u2014 to make sure his waitress got her tip.<\/p>\n

The business posted on Friday on social media<\/a> about a man who had stopped in while visiting Los Angeles from El Paso, Texas, and, unsure if he had remembered to tip, had mailed $50 to the restaurant weeks later.<\/p>\n

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In the letter, shared by Langer’s, Roberto Jos\u00e9 Andrade explained that he came in on May 1, but after leaving, he was only 75 percent sure he had left a tip amid the back-and-forth with friends about the bill.<\/p>\n

“My first job was as a bus boy and waiter, and my sister also worked as a waiter for years,” Andrade wrote in the letter, dated May 19. “I recognize how important these tips are to workers. That’s why I’m sending these $50 just in case I forgot to include the tip.”<\/p>\n

Andrade described his waitress and where he had been seated, asking the business to make sure she got the money.<\/p>\n

“We found her. She got it. And she was floored,” Langer’s wrote in the social media post.<\/p>\n

“Roberto, thank you for going out of your way to do the right thing when nobody would have known otherwise. Your table’s always ready here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I recognize how important these tips are to workers. That’s why I’m sending these $50 just in case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-437307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}