Customer raises money for 81-year-old waitress who can't afford to retire

Like many other workers, Mélanie Champagne began to imagine the day she would retire at the turn of the century. After decades of hard work and financial discipline, this new stage would be well deserved. Life will have decided otherwise: her photo is now published on the GoFundMe socio-financing platform.

From a TikTok video an 81-year-old waitress managed to get into “retirement”

Campaign started to help Eat’n Park waitress retire surges past original goal

A GoFundMe campaign started by a concerned Eat’N Park customer has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a waitress who works there.

Even at the age of eighty-one, he was forced to work.

Heart-wrenching video of 81-year-old waitress who ‘can hardly walk’ but still can’t retire

A woman who recorded a video of an 81-year-old woman working as a waitress at a local restaurant in Pennsylvania started a GoFundMe page to help her retire.

‘HELP HER RETIRE’: More than $250Gs raised for waitress, 81, who can’t afford to quit job

A waitress, 81, who struggles to walk, caught the eye of a customer who wanted to “help her retire.”