Montana 109-year-old finds loophole, gets restaurant to pay her for eating there on her birthday
Helen Self knows that when she goes to the Montana Club in Missoula, not only will she get a free meal, she'll earn a little money, too.
The Montana Club offers people who celebrate their birthdays there a discount based on their age; for example, a 21-year-old would get 21 percent off their meal. Self earned her first completely free dinner on her 100th birthday, and Montana Club owner Nick Alonzo told ABC FOX Montana that "once she turned 101, she informed me that I had to come in and pay for her meal."
That's what happened last Friday, when Self and almost two dozen friends and relatives dined at the restaurant to celebrate her 109th birthday. When their meal was over, Alonzo presented Self with a bill for $0, and gave her 9 percent back in cash; in return, she gave Alonzo a peck on the cheek.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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