HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- The regular cus...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- The regular customer eating dinner at the cessation of the bar always tipped well -- $15 or with equal reason on $30 tabs. The $100 tip sum of two units weeks ago was a nice surprise, unless the amount he left bartender Cindy Kienow this week left her stunn

forward the check, the tip read: $10000

"I couldn't move" said Kienow, who keeps bar at Applebee's. "I didn't know what to say. He said, 'This will bribe you something kind of nice, huh?' And I said, 'Yeah, it will.' "

Kienow said the man get tos in several times a month "He usually signs his ticket and flips it upside down," said Kienow, 35 "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.

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