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April 28, 2004 by Dane Carlson | 2 Comments

Associated Press:

Formosa Gardens restaurant has an unusual worker manning the cash register: 2-year-old Gordon Tan.

“He can do the credit card machine too,” said his mother, Tiffany Lei, who owns the restaurant with Gordon’s father, Jason Tan.

It was a busy day in January at the restaurant when Gordon first climbed up onto a chair, took customers’ tickets, rang up totals on the register, took the cash, then counted out their change _ correctly, Lei said. Earlier that month, he had celebrated his second birthday.

Gordon’s father said the toddler can tell credit cards from debit cards. He swipes them and enters the four-digit code to complete the sale.

When Gordon’s not at the register, he’s walking around the restaurant helping with day-to-day operations, said Patricia Durand, a customer. He runs to the back of the store to tell his parents how many customers just walked in. He knows the number assigned to each table, so he knows where to seat them, too.

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