A pizza driver got a $2 tip in a snowstorm, so people raised thousands for him

On Jan. 11, Lieutenant Richard Craig posted a video of he and Connor Stephanoff, a 20-year-old delivery driver for Rockstar Pizza in Brownsburg, Indiana.

The video, which starts by showing blizzardy conditions on a snow-covered street, highlighted the employee’s work ethic in the inclement weather.

“You delivering a pizza, bro?” Craig asks Stephanoff, who replies in the affirmative.

The delivery man trudges through the snow in sneakers and sweats. Stephanoff points to the distance, down a snowy hill, to indicate where he had to park and walk from.

“Did you get a good tip?” Craig asked Stephanoff.

“Two dollars,” Stephanoff replied.

“Are you kidding me?” Craig said. “Man, cold-blooded! Two dollars! Look at this man! This man walked through hell and high water to deliver a pizza.”

Stephanoff tells Craig that the full tip for the $40 pizza order was $2.15, then continues on his way up the hill to serve his customer.

In a follow-up video, Craig says he couldn’t let Stephanoff go without contributing to his tip with the money he had on him — $15.

“It was terrible,” Stephanoff, who lives with his grandmother and borrows her car to deliver pizza, tells TODAY.com. “There was no grip on the roads at all, and it was cold and snowing, nonstop.”

Craig started a GoFundMe hoping to raise a few hundred dollars for the pizza driver.

In the three weeks since Craig started the GoFundMe, it has raised over $41,000 from nearly 2,000 donations.

Reflecting on the outpouring of support for Stephanoff, Craig says, “Good things come to good people who do the right thing.”