Bartender gets $10,000 tip on $26 tab
 

HUTCHINSON, Kan. - Two weeks ago, one of Cindy Kienow's regular customers left her a $100 tip on a tab that wasn't even half that. This week, he added a couple of zeros.

Kienow, a bartender at Applebee's, got a $10,000 tip from the man ? for a $26 meal ? on Sunday.

"I couldn't move," Kienow said. "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 company officials have declined to name, comes in several times a month and eats at the end of the bar. He has always tipped well, she said, usually leaving $15 on a $30 tab.

Then came the $100 tip, followed by the real shocker.

"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.'"

It's not, company officials agreed.

"This is a great deal for us and a great deal for Cindy," said Rhodri McNee, vice president of operations for JS Enterprises, the owner of the Hutchinson Applebee's. "We did have a guest leave this tip on a credit card, and we're doing everything to make sure it's a valid charge."

The company is in the final stages of verifying the tip, McNee said, while also working to maintain the customer's privacy and make sure the money goes through the proper channels to get to Kienow.

"Nothing would make us happier than to present her with that check," McNee said. "She's been with us for eight years, and 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.

"I've been waiting on him for about three years," Kienow said. "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."

Kienow, whose father will have to take some time off work for surgery on both of his knees, said she hasn't decided what to do with the money.

"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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some rich dude trying to get laid

pay it forward in action.

pretty generous :)

damn, they make it sound like a million bucks...

"verify, proper channels, I'd like totake care of my parents with it"

I wonder how many times money like that has been passed along for nothing on GFY.

For some people , it is a million, check what a house goes for in rural kansas

damn.. and i thought when he tipped 50% was nuts... wow...

:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

what a guy

he should come use my web design service

Maybe just a marketing ploy by Applebee's? :winkwink:

this is sooo cool!!!

what a chump, has to drop $10k just to try and impress a chick

welcome to the real world ;)

I wonder what the biggest tip ever was...

He's a porn model scout.

It must be nice to have that sought of money to make someone you don't know happy for once ...

I'd take it as an insult. "Here you poor person, I -the rich guy- will make your day by throwing some money at you".

shes must be hot.... but still, I laugh at this rich guy. He is clearly just trying to impress her with money.

damn, very nice!!

I guess it was a lot to her :)

I heard it on the radio this morning, Thats a shocker

Good To hear .. need more people like that.

Those must have been some strong drinks she was pouring.

vegas.

i know of at least one situation where a blackjack dealer was given 100,000. but they do pool the tips within the whole pit

but i bet that it still has to be in vegas

Would you be happy to get a $10k tip working ? hell yeah

Does this happen everyday ? hell no

Does this happen more often then winning the lotto ? hell no

Awww what a great story, whatever his intentions may have been. Maybe he just has so much money he doesn't know what to do with it.

http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/...ntentID=160619


"Word has circulated for weeks that Wynn was angered after learning that a particularly successful high roller had showered the dealers with $500,000 that formerly belonged to the house. The incident, as the green-felt rumor has it, led to the departure of a casino vice president and this week's rules change."

:1orglaugh

Thats a nice thing to do, no matter what his reason was for doing it.

wow....that was really generous!

...big hooters?

That is super cool, what comes around goes around, good Karma

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Oh, I'm not saying it's not a big deal... it's just that I don't usually hear business owners talk about "going through propper channels" and having to "verify" $10k.

and taking care of her family or buying a jeep? With $10k?

Ouch....

how about a picture of the waitress

10K dayam I'd be doing the happy dance

I shit out 10k every second of the day. Pocket change nothing but crumbs.

lol. i've had my eyes on a jeep (that's over 30k). Debt here we come.

wow, thats really nice of the guy lol.
I like the "i should take care of my parents, but I feel like it was for me to do something for myself & so I want a jeep" lol when her dad is about to have surgery etc lol

I love how half the people in this thread think he has some ulterior motive for it? Maybe he was just trying to lighten up someones day? Maybe he was just trying to be nice? You know, some people still do crazy things like that.

What a nice bloke :)

Those kind of tips are pretty common in casinos. Might have something to do with the amount of cheese getting tossed around.

I know.. maybe 10,000 was a little bit too much..

i worked in restraunts where one of the waiters dealt blow. people would come in and order $2.50 espresso and leave a $50.00 "tip"

You make money to spend money.. Do what you want with it is what I think..