The Sand Bar on Tybee Island in Georgia is known as the “dollar-bill bar” because for years customers have been writing notes on singles and stapling them to the walls and ceilings.
Insider’s Haven Orecchio-Egresitz reported that the bar’s owner, Jennifer Knox, and volunteers spent days painstakingly taking down the bills and picking out the staples so they could donate the money to the bar’s out-of-work employees.
The bills added up to $3,714. Knox exchanged them for fresh ones at a bank and gave $600 to each of her four bartenders and two musicians.
“It was so emotional and beautiful,” Knox told Insider. “We couldn’t hug them, which absolutely sucked, but they were just crying.”