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A waitress who received a $4,400 tip from a group of good Samaritans to split between her and another server has been fired from her job after the restaurant manager forced her to cough up most of the money.

Grant Wise, who owns a local real estate company, organized the '$100 Dinner Club' to dine at the Oven and Tap in Bentonville, Arkansas, earlier this month, with each member contributing a $100 tip.  

Wise told KNWA he called the restaurant ahead of the outing to confirm that its servers did not share tips, and as he presented one of the waitresses, Ryan Brandt, with a check for $4,400 to split between her and another waitress who served the group, she was left in tears.

But soon after, Brandt said, restaurant managers told her she would have to split the tip with all of her co-workers - something she said they have not requested in the three and a half years she has worked there.