A group tipped staff $10,000 at a restaurant in Utah, causing a surge in job applications to the business, its owner said

• Diners at a Mexican restaurant in Salt Lake City left a $10,000 tip for staff.
• Its owner said that its number of job applications had boomed since the group left the tip.
• The restaurant's motto for good customer service is to treat diners "like your mom."

A regular customer and his friends tipped staff at a Mexican restaurant in Salt Lake City $10,000.

Alfonso Brito, who owns the restaurant, Monarca, with his wife, Claudia, told Insider that Michael McHenry, a regular customer and local restaurant owner, visited Monarca with around 24 other diners on a "super busy" Friday in mid-September.

As McHenry's table was getting ready to leave, one of his party called Brito over, thanked him for the meal, and asked him to bring his staff over.