Wowsers! $10,000 tip!
 

HUTCHINSON, Kansas (AP) -- The regular customer eating dinner at the end of the bar always tipped well -- $15 or so on $30 tabs. The $100 tip two weeks ago was a nice surprise, but the amount he left bartender Cindy Kienow this week left her stunned. On the check, the tip read: $10,000.

"I couldn't move," said Kienow, who tends bar at Applebee's. "I didn't know what to say. He said, `This will buy you something kind of nice, huh?' And I said, `Yeah, it will."'

Kienow said the man, whom restaurant officials have declined to identify, comes in several times a month.

"He usually signs his ticket and flips it upside down," said Kienow, 35, who has worked at the restaurant for eight years. "But this time, he had it right-side up and said `I want you to know this is not a joke."'

The restaurant is in the final stages of verifying that the tip is a valid charge, said Rhodri McNee, vice president of operations for JS Enterprises, owner of the Hutchinson Applebee's.

"Nothing would make us happier than to present her with that check," McNee said. "She's a great employee who does a great job."

Kienow said that while she always talks with the man when he comes in -- usually about current events or the weather -- she can't think of anything that would have prompted the huge tip. His tab for the night had only been $26.

"We'd just talk across the bar. He's a really nice guy. I hope he comes back in so I can tell him thank you, because the other day I was kind of dumbfounded," she said.

"I'd like to take care of my parents, since they always took care of me," she said. "But I feel like he wanted me to buy something for myself, and there's a Jeep that I've had my eye on for a while."




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Wow, that is amazing!!! :eek: :eek: I would love a tip that big!!!!!!

GIRL! You and me BOTH!

DANG! I worked at Applebee's and I can tell you my tips were nothing like that!!!

Holy Cow!!!! we just ate at Applebee's this evening and I'll tell you I sure didnt leave no $10,000!!!!!!

Wow! That is nice......I have read stories like this before......people just enjoying the company or great service they receive and leave huge tips! That is awesome! I just hope that she gets it.....You never know with some places!!!!

ok. I confess it was me!

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NOT....:notworthy

what a nice man!

I would love a tip like that!!!:p

all i can say is WOW!

I used to live in Hutchinson, Kansas - Guess I should have stayed and worked at Applebee's!!!

That reminds me of when "Bennifer" (J.Lo and Ben Affleck for all you who forgot!) was in Atlantic City and Ben gave one of the workers at the Borgota a huge tip. I forget the amount, but it was in the THOUSANDS. :eek:

Wow, just goes to show that sometimes it pays to be nice!!!

Stories like this make me wish I was a waitress in high school instead of working at McDonalds! I was super nice to people there but the most I was ever tipped was a dollar!
I love hearing stories like this! Those people work hard!