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| A waiter at an Applebee’s restaurant in central California handed in $32,000 (£21,500) in cash – an amount that likely comes close to his annual salary – that a family had forgotten at a table, a restaurant official said on Friday. | |
| While police praised him for his honesty, the waiter, a 10-year employee of the restaurant chain, has sought to remain anonymous and declined repeated requests to accept a reward from the family, Applebee’s area director, Carrie Hellyer, said. | While police praised him for his honesty, the waiter, a 10-year employee of the restaurant chain, has sought to remain anonymous and declined repeated requests to accept a reward from the family, Applebee’s area director, Carrie Hellyer, said. |
| “He just said that he did it because it was the right thing to do and he didn’t want the right thing being overwhelmed by anything else,” Hellyer said. | “He just said that he did it because it was the right thing to do and he didn’t want the right thing being overwhelmed by anything else,” Hellyer said. |
| The family left a canvas pouch stuffed with $32,000, all in hundred-dollar bills, at the restaurant in Fresno on Wednesday, said Lt Joe Gomez, a police spokesman. | The family left a canvas pouch stuffed with $32,000, all in hundred-dollar bills, at the restaurant in Fresno on Wednesday, said Lt Joe Gomez, a police spokesman. |
| Underscoring the waiter’s honesty, Hellyer said there was no surveillance camera in the area where the family left their money. The sum “probably exceeds or comes close” to the waiter’s annual salary, she said. | Underscoring the waiter’s honesty, Hellyer said there was no surveillance camera in the area where the family left their money. The sum “probably exceeds or comes close” to the waiter’s annual salary, she said. |
| Gomez said the money was returned to the family only after a detective determined it was obtained legally. The cash came from rental properties and a Mexican restaurant the family operates. | |
| “You know how some people don’t use banks? I think they’re that type of person,” he said. |