Mystery man gives 'Tips For Jesus' up to USD 10,000

The USD 111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a USD 1,000 tip and the words "god bless!" scrawled across it.
The handle @tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible signature.
In recent weeks, similar tabs have popped up in restaurants from coast to coast and even in Mexico, with tips of as much as USD 10,000 all charged to American Express.
Yesterday just after midnight, the mysterious man surfaced again this time in Fairfield, Connecticut. He left a USD 5,000 gratuity on a USD 112 bill at the Seagrape, an eatery where college kids drop by for cheap beers by the beach.

Tips for Jesus an Instagram account filled with photos documenting the tips has more than 54,000 followers. The account displays photos of smiling servers holding receipts with outlandish gratuities on bills also tallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Phoenix and Ann Arbor, Michigan. On Twitter, Tips for Jesus has nearly 3,000 followers but no tweets.
The Instagram feed comes with the tagline, "Doing the Lord's work, one tip at a time."

Three Manhattan restaurants were especially blessed the first weekend of December. A waiter in the restaurant of the NoMad Hotel got a USD 7,000 tip, another at The Smith restaurant was left USD 3,500, and USD 1,000 went to Aruj Dhawan, a 25-year-old fashion marketing student and immigrant from India working at Bo's Kitchen & Bar Room.

Dhawan served three guests who walked in one recent Saturday evening.
Their order a bourbon, a beer, an appetizer, a pork ragout and a pork chop amounted to USD 111.05, plus USD 1,000 for the waiter.
When they were gone, "Aruj approached me, handed me the receipt and said, 'Is this for real?'" said general manager Benjamin Cramer.
Again, before leaving, the tipster had snapped a photo of the waiter with the check and posted it on Instagram. The tipster also wrote his cellphone number at the bottom of the tab, telling Cramer to call him if American Express had any issues with processing the receipt.

After seeing the amount, Cramer said he understood why the credit card company might be suspicious and he himself was curious. So he called the number. The man who answered reassured the manager that the tip was real.