Server lands $5,000 tip in Donnie Wahlberg tip challenge
Car dealership magnate Ernie Boch Jr. left the tip with a note: 'Donnie, your move'
A server from Massachusetts got quite the surprise Saturday night when a wealthy businessman left her some major green on his restaurant tab.
Jennifer Navaria was waiting tables at Seaglass Restaurant in Salisbury when she received a hefty $5,000 tip from car dealership magnate Ernie Boch Jr.
"Thank you Ernie Boch for your amazing generosity!" Navaria wrote in a Facebook post accompanying an image of the $157.56 tab. "You certainly made a job I really enjoy that much better."
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Boch is an American business executive who runs Boch Enterprises, which is an independent distributor for scores of Subaru dealerships across multiple New England states.
At first, Navaria told WCVB she thought the tip read $50.
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"I was, like, 'Oh, wait a minute,' so then I looked down again, and I saw it was four digits, then a decimal point," Navaria told WCVB . "I said, 'You made my night,' but, really, he made my month."
Boch was inspired by actor Donnie Wahlberg, who left a significant sum for a server at an IHOP restaurant on New Year's Day.
To start off 2020, Walhberg actor left a $2,020 tip for the server to reflect the new year. His wife tweeted an image of the big tip accompanying the check for $78.45 with the hashtag #2020tipchallenge.
"Donnie, your move," Boch wrote on top of the tip.
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Navaria asked her friends on social media to help share the post with Wahlberg.
"Let's see if my friends can help this reach Donnie! #2020tipchallenge," she wrote. The post has since garnered hundreds of likes, shares, and comments. Many Facebook users are even leaving messages on Boch's Facebook, complimenting him for the kind gesture.
Shortly after McCarthy's tweet of her husband's generous tip went viral, the hashtag caused a number of similar, albeit smaller, acts of generosity, which spread throughout Twitter.
"I hear about this happening to other people, and I knew about that challenge, but who would have ever thought it would happen to you?" Navaria said.