A 70-year-old employee known as 'Taco Bell Joe' received a $6,000 tip from his community By: CNN By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) -- A Taco Bell employee so loved by his community that he's known as "Taco Bell Joe" received a $6,095 tip raised by hundreds of his supporters. For nearly 20 years, Joe DeCicco has worked at the drive-through window of a Taco Bell in South Daytona, Florida. He refers to all his customers as friends, remembers his guests by name and his contagious smile makes it hard for anyone to forget him. So when Tricia Phillippi started a contest asking people to nominate their favorite local food industry worker -- who would then receive a prize -- it wasn't hard to see why DeCicco won by a landslide.