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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) -- The regular customer eating dinner 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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
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