shana brown is joining me live. she's the waffle house waitress with the smile. everyone why you could not get the $1,000 tip? >> well, basically the manager explained to me that substantial amount of tips like that according to waffle house, they have to be withheld and refunded back to the customer in case there's a dispute about it. >> if a customer wants to give you, a waitress, a thousand bucks. can't be credit card. check or cash. this is waffle house statement on their policy. when a guest makes a tip this size, it's our procedure to refund the tip amount and ask the guest to make the tip in cash or check. we follow the procedure in the event the customer decides to dispute the credit card charge. that policy, credit waffle house, they have a policy in place, you didn't know about the policy before so you waited four hours for manager to come in to get that money, right? >> yes, ma'am, i did. >> i can't imagine. this was on mother's day. i can't imagine how disappointed you were. you have three children to raise. you're a single mom with two jobs, right? >