Outback Employees Hoped NOBODY Would Notice What They Wrote On Officers’ Receipt
By KyleStevens-
Four Louisiana cops were working their shifts as usual, and when they worked up an appetite and chose to go to Outback Steakhouse for dinner. What they were in shock once they walked into the door, as the manager and server spotted their uniforms and planned on sending them a message on their receipt.
The note left on the receipt for the four police officers
The situation took place at an Outback in Slidell, when four on-duty police officers decided to get get a bite to eat, as reported by Fox8. They were served like any other customer and everything was pretty normal this night, until they received their receipt and were hit with a huge surprise.
“They’re the sweetest guys,” said server Zoe Rao. “I enjoy waiting on them.”
Apparently, the four police officers are good customers at the location, which manager Arline Wood, an 18-year veteran of the company, took notice of. So, she and Rao devised a plan together, and when it came time for the officers to pay the $67 tab, they quickly realized it was on the house. Not only did the server and manager pick up their tab, they left them a heartfelt note on the ticket, thanking them for their service to the community.
“Be safe!” the note started at the very top of the receipt, before finishing their message to the officers at the bottom. “Thank y’all for y’all’s service! Enjoy y’all’s meal on us!”
The note left on the receipt for the four police officers
In an effort to thank the two Outback employees, the Slidell Police Department posted an image of the receipt to their Facebook page, and as you would imagine, it quickly went viral. However, that’s not what Wood or Rao wanted at all. In fact, when asked about it afterward, Wood said the publicity has been a little too much to handle.
“I got a phone call early in the morning and I was like what are you talking about?” Wood recalled. “People were calling me and then we saw it on Facebook, then it’s on this one and that one, and we didn’t do it for this publicity, because Lord knows I don’t like all this publicity.”
The two generous employees now hope that their kind act will inspire others to do something to thank those who put their lives on the line daily to protect us. Oh, and for those wondering how the four officers reacted to Wood and Rao buying them a meal – they reportedly left a hefty tip to show their own gratitude.
Kudos to these women for providing an excellent example of how to thank our law enforcement, who volunteer to go out and face evil every day so that we don’t have to. This is the kind of thing we need to be seeing, rather than hearing about officers being denied service or otherwise being disrespected by people in service industries because it’s acts of appreciation like this that remind them of why they do what they do.
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