Applebee's Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip On $26 Tab

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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."

nnaaaawwww. he doesn't want to get into HER pants :D

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/08/31/bartender_gets_10000_tip_on_26_tab_1157012216?mode=PF

Tiger Woods

No Tippin Pippen.

:shrug:

having lunch with someone he shouldn't have. :)

They help justify paying your employees $2.15 an hour.

as if waitresses didn't get screwed enough.

:(

But most people wouldn't think about that at all.

Anytime I pay for a meal w/ a debit or credit card I always ask if I can charge a bit extra, just to have some change back. The change I get back is what I leave for my wait staff. And I never leave on the table-I make sure they have it in hand before I leave the restaurant. (Too many years of catching people trying to steal tips off of tables.) I've even made comments about just stuffing it into a pants pocket (if it's one of our regular restaurants) and pretending that they didn't get it, so that they don't have to claim it.

to leave it in ones and change. So they can, like, use it to do laundry or something.

Or I'll just leave one of these, but it's a real pain in the ass to make change:




That does kinda suck, though. I never leave a tip on the credit card. Dude probably deducted it from his taxes somehow, too.

how much cash do you think he carries around with him? Seriously, no good deed goes unpunished, or at least uncriticised on the web