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Kindness Brings Big Tips To South Florida Restaurant Server

The tips were inspired by a national tip-off challenge that started among rival college basketball fans in Cincinnati.

March 8, 2021

A single mother of four working as a restaurant server got the surprise of her life last month when not one but two customers left huge tips on otherwise modest checks.

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The tips were inspired by a national tip-off challenge that started among rival college basketball fans in Cincinnati.

Kimberly Filion, who has worked at Kirby’s Sports Grille in Juno Beach for the past six years, had never heard of the Crosstown Tip-Off Challenge that has revved up fans of University of Cincinnati and Xavier University since a Xavier Musketeers fan left a $1,000 tip at a local burger joint in January. Last week, a UC Bearcats fan in Wyoming, Ohio, left a $7,000 tip on a $65 check at a local Italian café.

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