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Libragal07
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Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (Aug. 31) - 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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MABLE03
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
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2PreciousBlessings
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
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BobBsWife
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
Wow!!
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| Posted 8/31/06 2:49 PM |
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Bri
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
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| Posted 8/31/06 2:51 PM |
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Christine
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
I know someone that happened to a few years ago -- he was so blown away and ended up becoming personal friends with the patron.
You don't hear about that kind of generosity a lot.
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| Posted 8/31/06 2:53 PM |
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Lisa
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
WOW!!!
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| Posted 8/31/06 2:54 PM |
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TheLorax
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
 I like that! Amazing
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| Posted 8/31/06 2:54 PM |
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Shelly
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
That is so wonderful to read!!! There are still good, generous people in the world.
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| Posted 8/31/06 2:55 PM |
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megsm3
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
omg!!
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| Posted 8/31/06 2:57 PM |
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lvdolphins
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
Maybe I should waitress.
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| Posted 8/31/06 5:57 PM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
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| Posted 8/31/06 6:05 PM |
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Jenziba
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
Nice!
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| Posted 8/31/06 8:00 PM |
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evenedan
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
I bet she's hoping he comes back next week and adds yet another zero to it! Lucky girl!!
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| Posted 8/31/06 8:04 PM |
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Jesaroo
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
A) it seems like he may want something form her!
B) i could never accept that amount! thats insane!
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| Posted 8/31/06 10:12 PM |
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ggt08
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
Posted by Lolita4Life
A) it seems like he may want something form her!
B) i could never accept that amount! thats insane!
ummmm a tip is a tip......
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| Posted 8/31/06 11:23 PM |
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Moehick
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
Ya never know what will come out of showing a little kindness to a stranger
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| Posted 8/31/06 11:27 PM |
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nyteacher13
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
I don't know... maybe I'm cynical, but I think this guy will expect something out of her now...
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| Posted 9/1/06 12:38 AM |
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Jesaroo
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
Posted by nyteacher13
I don't know... maybe I'm cynical, but I think this guy will expect something out of her now...
i agree
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| Posted 9/1/06 4:56 AM |
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Jesaroo
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Re: Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab!!
Posted by kdelace
Posted by Lolita4Life
A) it seems like he may want something form her!
B) i could never accept that amount! thats insane!
ummmm a tip is a tip......
yeah, you think? i couldnt take that, i must be abad bartender cuz sometimes i get ppl trying to give me alot of $$$ and i say "uh-uh, thats too much!" and i wont take it!
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| Posted 9/1/06 4:58 AM |
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