Rubyniks cafe at Westfield Miranda has thanked customers who filled their tips jar with $6500 to help children in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The cafe had hoped to raise $5000 for Save the Children, but a Leader report on how the team was donating their tips provided an extra boost.
“People were coming up and dropping $50 notes in the jar,” said Andrew Shalhoub, who has operated the cafe with his sister Sarah Johnston since 2003.
“The response was just fantastic.”
The cafe put up a note before Christmas saying all tips would be donated to Save the Children to fund aid to Aleppo where a humanitarian catastrophe unfolded during battles in December.
“What we were seeing on the TV news was so sad, especially at Christmas,” Mr Shalhoub said.