A 400 USD tip for Hawaii waitress and then a 10,000 USD surprise

The 21-year-old moved from California to Hawaii to attend college but was forced to take a break from university because of mounting student loans. So, she started working at two restaurants to save money to go back to studies. 

On April 5, she was serving a couple visiting from Australia at Noi Thai restaurant in Honolulu. While chatting with the couple, she told them why she was working at the restaurant and told them how she hoped to go back to college one day. When Cayla was clearing out the table at the end of her shift, she discovered that the couple had left her a huge 400 USD tip. 

“I had tears streaming down my face. No words at all. I actually went back to work in tears,” she told Civil Beat. She wrote a letter for the couple and reached out to them at their hotel to thank them personally for their gesture. But this is where this story gets even better. The couple visited the restaurant again the next night and offered to pay off her student loan, which totalled to almost 10,000 USD. She told the couple, “I was like, “No way, you don’t have to do that for me. I just wanted to say thank you,” according to Daily Mail.