Nice Tip!

[caudio51]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/31/bigtip.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

Nice tip! Bartender gets $10,000 on $26 tab

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."

 

[Rank_Tyro]

Now I feel bad when I tip my bartenders two bucks on a scotch and soda......

 

[texas_stang]

he just wants a piece of a$$. Somebody needs to tell him to go to the local strip bar, 10 Grand will buy a lot more.

 

[cvm4]

I heard this on the radio yesterday. Very nice guy if it all goes through and is legit.

 

[pdonlin]

Wow I'm really happy for the bartender assuming it all goes through (and it sounds like it will). Theres not much better than random acts of kindness and im sure it made her day for several days.

 

[Electric Sheep]

The guy is either:

A: Absurdly wealthy and likes to give away money.

B: Absurdly wealthy and thinks he can "buy" her affection.

C: Terminally ill and is giving all his money away before he dies.

D: Just a straight-up freak.

 

[tedski]

Reminds me of that movie with Nicolas Cage + Bridget Fonda ... "It could happen to You"

 

[NYLaw]

Tedski, yeah, that's what I was thinking too...

I'd love to see a picture of this bartender who "has no idea" why she'd get such a big tip...

 

[CWS]

Can you say...Corporate expense account?

 

[caudio51]

Yea, I would love to see a pic of this girl

 

[AZsteelman]

Yea, I would love to see a pic of this girl

yeah, but you're a hound and who knows what you'd do with the pic :rofl:

 

[caudio51]

my eyes would burn through it :rofl: