A server at a Michigan restaurant was shocked to become a recipient of the 2020 Tip Challenge, where customers leave a $20.20 tip -- or in this case, $2,020.
“Things like this don’t happen to people like me,” Danielle Franzoni, a server at Thunder Bay River Restaurant, told The Alpena News.
Franzoni, who moved to Alpena, Michigan, to start over and get sober, received the tip Sunday on a $23 bill, CNN reported.
“I’m going to build a future because of this. My kids have a future and I have a home,” Franzoni told WXYZ. “It’s a big deal. It’s a really big deal.”
Franzoni is a single mother about to move into her first house. She plans to use some of the money to get back her driver’s license, The Alpena News reported.
Franzoni went to a restaurant later that night and left a tip -- $20.20.
“That was my pay it forward," Franzoni told The Alpena News. “I couldn’t do the other one.”
Donnie Wahlberg also took up the challenge, leaving a $2,020 tip for a server at a St. Charles, Illinois, IHOP on New Year’s Day, WGN reported. The bill was $78.
His wife, Jenny McCarthy, shared a photo of the receipt on social media.