Rick Clark gathered $800 in cash along with $250 in gift cards from community members to surprise a local waitress after she was kind to an overwhelmed mother.
SPOKANE, Wash. — A video of a Spokane man and a local waitress went viral on social media after he raised $800 in cash and $250 in gift cards to surprise the waitress with a holiday act of kindness.
Rick Clark posted a video of his gift to Amber, who works as a server at The Boiler Room in Spokane, on Facebook and TikTok. Clark says in the video that he saw a Facebook post from a local mom who took her children to Boiler Room and expressed gratitude for Amber’s patience with her and her children, one of which was having a “rough day.”
Clark says after reading the mother’s post, he asked his Facebook followers to help him raise money to surprise Amber. Then, Clark took to the streets of Spokane and gathered donations from several community members, most of which were other local mothers who said the story resonated with them and told Clark that Amber’s show of grace was something that should be rewarded.
“It put a lot of light out into the world,” says Clark in the video. “And right now people need that.”
The video has 1 million views on Facebook and over 2 million views on TikTok.