Man roasted for complaining about waiter tip after spending £3,500 on burger and champagne dinner

“Know your audience” is a maxim many people seem to forget when posting personal anecdotes on social media.

For example, complaining about having to tip your waiter after forking out thousands on a dinner of champagne and luxury burgers isn’t going to garner much sympathy from your average Joe.

Still, that didn’t stop one financial trader who posted a photo of his receipt following a meal in Marbella, Spain.

Enrique Moris shared the image, and his fury, after he was allegedly forced to pay both a service charge and a tip following the eye-wateringly lavish dinner.

He claimed that he and his group of seven were preparing to leave the restaurant after paying the €372 (around £317.70) service charge on their €3,725 (£3,181) feast when a waiter ran over to ask whether they were going to leave a tip as well.

“Marbella [is] the new Ibiza,” he tweeted in Spanish. “Fraudsters everywhere.”

His post racked up more than 6,200 retweets and 3,600 likes in just two days as fellow Twitter users shared their bafflement at his public admission.

Their focus was largely on the extravagance of his meal, which included Wagyu beef burgers, tequila, and two €1,000 (£854) magnums of Dom Perignon.

“You’ve spent at least ten pensions on a dinner of bloody hamburgers and now you want what? Solidarity?” one commentator wrote.

“If you order a €1,000 bottle you’re asking to be swindled,” said another.

Even Burger King, Spain, got in on the act, joking that it would soon be serving champagne on tap in its Marbella branches:

Meanwhile, another user pointed out: “The service charge goes to the club. You should always take care of the waiters if they’ve treated you well.”

Moris clarified in a reply to the latter that he and his companions did, in fact, leave a €250 (£214) in the end but “didn’t feel the need to publicise it”.

In a follow-up tweet, he posted a look at the financial markets, bragging that he managed to pay for the entire meal in just ten minutes thanks to his investments:

Way to win the people back, friend.