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Mystery diner picks up the tab

An anonymous customer at a Denny's restaurant decided to voluntarily pay for the meals of all her fellow diners.

"People thought we were joking. She didn't want anybody to know she paid and then she left," Carol Kronberger, a waitress at a location near Sacramento, Calif., told KCRA.

"It just put a smile on everyone's faces because we got to go to each individual table and tell them that some young lady just paid for all their meals."

Manager Tom Klepac says the total bill was about $200 and that the Denny's staff agreed to keep the customer's identity a secret, only noting that she was a young woman.

Have you ever been the recipient of a random act of kindess?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.