Owner selling restaurant to pay for waitress’ medical bills
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Kaiserhof Restaurant owner Michael De Beyer parting with family’s German restaurant in Montgomery to help waitress Brittany Mathis. Mathis was diagnosed with a brain tumor after treating a rash. She can’t afford treatment.
A Texas restaurateur is trying to dish out a second chance for his waitresses submerged in medical bills.
Kaiserhof Restaurant owner Michael De Beyer has put his family’s German eatery in Montgomery on the market to help pay for waitress Brittany Mathis’ mounting medical bills after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
"I just can't be standing by and doing nothing," . "I have to try something, because it's not right."
Mathis, a 19-year-old server whose mother also works at the restaurant, discovered the growth on her brain after visiting a doctor for a rash, she told the station.
“The rash on my leg started, and I went to the hospital ... next day they come in and tell me I have a tumor,” she recalled.
Mathis doesn’t have health insurance and the teenager can’t even afford to find out if the mass in her skull is cancerous or not.
Her father tragically died after he had a tumor unexpectedly erupt. He had no idea that he was even sick, the family said.
"I guess sort of the same thing Brittany is going through," her mother Barbara Mathis told KHOU. "I just want her to get help."
De Beyer stepped in and put his business up for sale, which has been in his family for the past 17 years. The man admits he also wants to unload the eatery so that he can spend quality time with his wife and two kids.
"Here's a family, they really work hard they have a lot of stuff against them in the past and they are not holding their hand open they didn't even ask anybody for help," said De Beyer.
The businessman is seeking $2 million for the restaurant.
It’s unclear if De Beyer will be able to complete the transaction in time for Mathis to get the dangerous growth treated.
"I really think it’s an amazing blessing and can't thank him enough and his family,"
"Never thought that anybody would do that and he did and it makes me feel really good." said the teenager.