Heath Ledger is an excellent tipper

We had a brush with celebrity greatness tonight...or celebrity hotness at any rate. The next Batman movie is currently filming in Chicago and as such we have had a few stars in our midst. Making his second trip to the restaurant, Mr. Ledger had the ladies (and the gays) in quite a tizzy. Within minutes the word spread that, "Heath Ledger is sitting in 311!" Also within minutes the side station two booths away had roughly 15 servers in - all doing outrageous things like polishing glasses and sorting papers so that they could look busy while gawking at our celebrity friend. Mind you this side station usually has about 2 to 5 people in it at a time. Like all gossip the news spread fast and soon we were all making excuses to walk past the booth and bask in his beautiful celebrity. "Oh my God, he took his hat off!" "He's eating ribs!" I felt the need to call my mother from the to-go room (and if any of my managers are reading this I assure you that I clocked out, made the phone call, and then clocked back in) to frantically shout at her, "Heath Ledger is here and he's eating ribs and he has beautiful skin!" I later laughed about this with a coworker only to find out she had text basically the same thing to her sister and several of her friends. And everyone wants to be the person waiting on the hot celebrity. "I don't know what I'd do...I'd swoon!" is what one coworker told me. Another paced the kitchen waiting for the ticket to come up so that he could personally deliver the food. "It's not fair, why didn't I get that table," was muttered several times from the side stations. And as you can imagine there were more than a few vulgar references made to inviting Mr. Ledger out back to recreate his famous Brokeback Mountain tent scene. Once he left we all wanted to know what tip he left. "Is he a good tipper?" "Did he hook it up?" The server at 311 was happy to report that Mr. Ledger left 30 on 70. Well done Heath Ledger - you are pretty and polite.