Table Hopping By Steve Barnes, senior writer on April 20, 2021 at 8:51 AM
Veteran Hattie’s Restaurant bartender Sal Porterfield, center, shows off the funds received through the local website Two Buttons Deep’s Big Tip Energy campaign with 2BD co-founders Taylor Rao, left, and Jack Carpenter. (Provided photo.)
After six weeks of a campaign called Big Tip Energy that crowdsources money for Capital Region restaurants, the local entertainment website
Two Buttons Deep has brought in and donated more than $10,000.
The most recent disbursement, last week, was to $1,500 to Hattie’s Restaurant in Saratoga Springs. This week’s recipient will be The Bishop in Albany, which reopened last weekend after an extended, pandemic-related winter break that began in early December. Jack Carpenter, co-founder of 2BD, tells me tips for The Bishop, to be delivered later this week, total the second-highest amount raised by Big Tip Energy so far. (The top at the moment, $2,700
Website s restaurant tipping campaign at $10K and counting
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Veteran Hattie s Restaurant bartender Sal Porterfield, center, shows off the funds the Saratoga Springs restaurant received through the local website Two Buttons Deep s Big Tip Energy campaign, with 2BD co-founders Taylor Rao, left, and Jack Carpenter. (Provided photo.)Provided photo
TROY After six weeks of a campaign called Big Tip Energy that crowdsources money for Capital Region restaurants, the local entertainment website Two Buttons Deep has brought in and donated more than $10,000.
The most recent disbursement, last week, was to $1,500 to Hattie s Restaurant in Saratoga Springs. This week s recipient will be The Bishop in Albany, which reopened last weekend after an extended, pandemic-related winter break that began in early December. Jack Carpenter, co-founder of Troy-based 2BD, tells me tips for The Bishop, to be delivered later this week, total the second-highest amount raised by Big Tip E