Tucker Beck is a real estate agent but found his way behind the bar at Huey’s Restaurant about 10 years ago after the market bust in 2008 and several life changes.
Earlier this week, Beck was bartending at the Huey’s location on Poplar when a homeless man came into the restaurant and started asking a few customers for money. Beck says the man was warm and approachable, so much so that a customer or 2 gave the homeless man $2.
Beck says he felt something good in the man.
With the money in his hands, the man approached the bar and asked Beck what he could get from the menu for $2. Beck’s response was that the man could have a burger anyway he wanted it, but Beck didn’t stop there. The bartender asked the man if he wanted fries or onion rings and what he wanted to drink.
Beck gave him a bag of food that was so full the man asked a customer to tie the bag for him, so he wouldn’t spill any of the food.
A customer who witnessed the act felt anybody not in that Huey’s restaurant that day should witness that moment and posted the story on social media.
Beck says this was just another day at the bar.
He told me a homeless woman lived in the MATA bus shelter across the street from Huey’s on Poplar for months during the hot summer of 2016. Each day Beck took her a burger and something cold to drink.
Bring up Beck’s name to his co-workers and they’ll all tell you how great of a guy Beck is.
Beck says since the homeless man walked out the door of Huey’s, Beck has been trying to find him to offer any help he could.
In all of his days in that Huey’s, Beck says he’d never seen that man before, but there was something about him that was different and though Beck helps nearly anybody he can he felt there was more to be done for this particular man on that particular day.
