Andre Roberson has received a large amount of criticism for his alleged tipping (or lack thereof) of a bartender at a restaurant in Austin, Texas last week. David Rodriguez, a bartender at the restaurant, posted a photo of Roberson’s bill on Twitter last week with the caption: @FlyDre21 get paid 30 million for 3 years and tips this!!! Your [sic] trash!!!" The bill showed that Roberson bought $487.13 worth of items (which turned out to be a $487 bottle of alcohol) yet tipped $13.97 – much less than the standard 15-20 percent tip often made at restaurants/bars. Rodriguez’s tweet went viral, which compelled Roberson to respond to the tweet. Roberson tweeted: “Shouldn’t have had to tip you it was just a bottle at a bar … there was no service… now I can see if it was a club! You Reaching bro,” he wrote. Roughly an hour after tweeting his response to the backlash on Twitter, he asked how his teammates Steven Adams and Enes Kanter were doing. Adams replied: “We out here tipping more than $13.” Kanter responded to Adams’ tweet by saying, “Hahaha oh no!! Don’t do that to him like that plz.” Roberson then took to Instagram to respond to the criticism. He said that the bottle he bought ranges from $84-129 retail, and was marked up to $487, which is “unbelievable” for a bar. In addition, he claims that before he ordered the bottle, he ordered a $100 tab on shots and left a $200 tip. He also said that he felt like the bartender in question was trying to “take advantage of a situation.” If Roberson’s side of the story is to be believed, the $200 tip he left on the $100 bill, combined with his roughly $13 tip on the $487 bill, he actually left a 36 percent tip, which would make Roberson a great tipper. Do you believe Roberson’s side of the story?
