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On 1 April 2016, the web site Love What Matters posted the above-reproduced tale of a patron who paid the tab for seven different families and left his server a $1,500 tip at a Denny's restaurant because, he said, Family is everything, I’ve lost all mine. The story quickly racked up over 100,000 shares on Facebook and achieved additional virality when the Tribune Media Wire distributed it to news outlets who ran it under such clickbaiting headlines as Man sits at Denny’s for 2 hours without ordering, then does the unthinkable — without any additional commentary or discussion of whether the story might actually be true. NBC's Dateline reported that they had contacted the man in question (identified only as Briggs), who said he had performed the same act multiple times and the current report was exaggerated: On 11 April 2016, a Denny's representative told us that they have so far been unable to confirm the story but they are still looking into it.
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