last Sunday a couple came to eat on the Thunder Bay River, a small restaurant in Alpena (Michigan, USA), and when they went to pay the bill of 23 dollars (about 20 euros) they decided to leave a tip that was almost 90 times that amount: 2.020 dollars (€1,800). The gift was accompanied by a greeting of new year for Danielle Franzoni, the waitress that had taken care of.

Franzoni could not believe in a first moment your luck, but the restaurant manager assured him that the tip was for her. “Things like this don't happen to people like me,” said the employee of the newspaper The Alpena News. Franzoni, a single mother of 31 years, had recently moved to Alpena to "begin again" after having lived in a shelter for his addiction to drugs. "They don't know anything of my history, where I come from. Don't know how difficult it has been," commented Franzoni on the couple that left the generous sum.

"I'm a waitress. I don't earn a lot of money, it would take me months to save $ 2,000," said the woman to CBS News. The clerk has explained that they will use the money to retrieve his driving license and save. Besides, after his stroke of luck, Franzoni visited another restaurant and stopped herself 20,20 dollar tip. “It is my way of returning the favor,” he explained.

The tip is received Franzoni is part of a challenge viral under the name 2020 tip challenge aims to reward waiters with figures forming the numbers of the new year. Whether 2.020 dollars or 20,20. This is not the first time that arises as an initiative of this style to try to compensate for the low salaries of the employees of the restoration in the united STATES. In 2018, emerged from the Tip to The Bill Challenge, which proposed to leave a tip equal to the consumption.