A couple in North Carolina is accusing a waitress of forging her tip after they decided not to leave her one.
He said that he was going to leave her cash, but he then reconsidered because the service was poor.
But after that, something didn’t seem right.
“So this morning, whenever I went to check my bank account because I just felt like something was fishy about it, like she was going to do something - she just gave me that vibe,” Lester said.
“I went to go check my bank statement, and, instead of the $67 which was holding, it now had a finalized payment for $80.”
Lester then called his bank, and someone with the bank said he has to go back and talk with the restaurant. When he spoke with Blue Asia’s owner, she handed over his receipt.
“And she says, ‘well here’s your receipt,’ and I looked at it, and as soon as I looked at it I knew it was forged, that it wasn’t mine,” Lester told the station.
They called the cops after the discovery. An official said they'd look into the matter.
The owner said she’s never seen anything like that before.
“Hopefully prevent that from happening to anybody else,” Lester said.
Last year, a restaurant in Roanoke, Va., is said to have forged a signature, changing the tip on a family’s receipt. A waitress had doubled her tip from 10 percent to 20 percent.
