LeSean McCoy’s 20-cent tip angers Philadelphia restaurant owner

A Philadelphia restaurant owner got angry this week after Eagles running back LeSean McCoy supposedly berated his staff before leaving a 20-cent tip.

The owner of PYT, a restaurant in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia that specializes in creative hamburgers and pub food, posted a picture of McCoy’s receipt on Tuesday, which showed the star running back left a 0.3% tip on a $61.56 bill, according to the eatery’s Facebook page.

The image quickly went viral, causing many on social sites to question how a multimillionaire like McCoy could be so stingy. The owner of the restaurant, 43-year-old Tommy Up, also took McCoy to task on Facebook on Tuesday.

“He and his group, from the moment they sat down, were verbally abusive to our staff in the most insulting ways. The derogatory statements about women and their sheer contempt for the staff serving them wasn’t the end, however,” he wrote. “After Mr McCoy and his group left I looked over and saw their server, my friend, with his head bowed down and with a very confused look on his face.”

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Up said McCoy visited the restaurant on Monday with three friends, though he wasn’t sure any of them were athletes. Up said the restaurant was often visited by local sports stars, most often by players from the Philadelphia 76ers, and generally they are “anywhere from great tippers to average.”

Attempts to contact an Eagles representative were not immediately successful.

Up said he has received more than 2,300 emails about the decision to post the photo. Given the notoriously combative nature of Philadelphia sports fans, who once famously booed Santa Claus, he said some of his staff members were concerned about publishing the receipt.

“I’m going to turn off my computer for a while,” Up said. “It’s been like that scene in ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ where those bags of mail keep coming in.”

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