Jane Adams Gets Waiter Fired Over Tweet

Jane Adams gets a waiter fired but it had nothing to do with him commenting on her incredibly dull name. It was all about a tweet.

Who is this Jane Adams? Isn’t she a figure from the American Revolution?

Not quite. Adams is one of those actresses you’ve seen plenty of times in movies and on television but you don’t know her name.

Currently, the mousey brunette can be seen in the HBO series “Hung.” I haven’t watched an episode so I’m assuming it’s about a picture hanger or a prominent Chinese man?

This past July, Adams ate lunch at Barney Greengrass, a restaurant in Beverly Hills known for catering to celebrities. When the bill for $13.44 arrived Adams claimed that she had “left her wallet in the car” and couldn’t pay (sounds like ReynsGems every time the TPH staff goes out to lunch).

Her waiter, Jon-Barrett Ingels or JBI to his friends, allowed her to leave to fetch her wallet. But according to JBI, Adams never returned.

Shortly thereafter, Adams’ people called and paid the bill. I know what you’re thinking, this podunk actress actually has people?

However, her people didn’t give Ingels a tip. That prompted the scorned waiter to write on his Twitter page:

“Her agent called and payed (sic) the following day. NO TIP!!!”

That tweet eventually got Ingels fired.

Before you become indignant at the restaurant, you need to realize that they serve the stars (although the only names we’ve seen listed as customers are Tori Spelling, Ali Later and Mindy Kaling). The restaurant relies on protecting the privacy of its celebrity patrons as much as they rely on their menu. Ingels’ tweet broke that sacred covenant.

“I understand they want to keep a safe environment for the celebrities and I think that I broke that safety,” Ingels told AOL’s Slashfood. “Had they come to me and said you need to take this down or change it to private, had I been told if you don’t do this, you’re going to lose your job — I would’ve done that.”

Ingels was fired despite having worked at the restaurant for five years, putting his job on the line to vouch for Adams, and tweeting the truth.

It would have been classy had Adams returned and gave Ingels a crisp twenty dollar bill (that’s what a star of a Showtime series would have done). Instead, she gave Ingels a three dollar tip.

The story goes that a month later a scowling Adams returned to the restaurant and slapped the measly gratuity down on a table.

“Thank you so much. You didn’t have to do this,” Ingels told Adams.

“Well, I read about it on Twitter!” she replied.