{"id":437445,"date":"2026-08-19T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437445\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:08","slug":"texas-man-mails-50-and-a-letter-to-langers-deli-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437445\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man mails $50 and a letter to Langer\u2019s Deli \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man from El Paso, Texas, went above and beyond to make sure he left a tip after visiting Langer\u2019s Deli in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, the deli shared a heartfelt letter sent to them by Roberto Jos\u00e9 Andrade, along with $50 for the tip he couldn\u2019t remember if he had left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After enjoying a meal and paying the bill, Andrade said he drove away and wondered &#8220;Did I leave a tip?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m about 75% sure I did. Of course, that leaves a 25% change I didn&#8217;t and honestly, that&#8217;s been bothering me for the past few weeks,\u201d Andrade wrote in the letter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He explained how his first job was bussing and waiting tables, and said he recognized how important a tip is to someone in that position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s why I&#8217;m sending these $50 just in case I forgot to include the tip,\u201d the letter said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrade then shared a very detailed description of his visit to Langer\u2019s Deli to help identify the waitress. He kindly asked that the tip be given to the waitress, along with an apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoberto, thank you for going out of your way to do the right thing when nobody would have known otherwise. Your table\u2019s always ready here,\u201d the restaurant said in its social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from El Paso, Texas, went above and beyond to make sure he left a tip after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-437445","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\/437445","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=437445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}