MONTGOMERY – Restaurateur Michael De Beyer wants to sell his fine-dining German restaurant, but at the right price, and all for a good cause. 
 
 A 19-year-old employee of De Beyer’s has been diagnosed with a ping-pong size tumor in her brain, he said. And in December, when doctors first made their diagnosis, De Beyer’s jack-of-all-trades hostess, waitress, bus-girl and kitchen aide didn’t have health insurance, he said. 
 
 De Beyer said he is willing to help any way he can, even if that includes selling the only German restaurant owned by an actual German in the Houston region, as he describes his Montgomery restaurant of 15 years, the Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar. 
 
 “I’m not able to just sit by and let it happen,” De Beyer said. “I couldn’t live with myself; I would never be happy just earning money from my restaurant knowing that she needs help.” 
 
 Brittany Mathis and her mother Barbara (who works at Kaiserhof as a restaurant manager and at the Wunderbar as bar manager) told De Beyer that a neurosurgeon confirmed from an examination of Brittany and her ensuing Magnetic Resonance Imaging test and CAT scan results in late December (after Brittany had spent three days in a regional hospital’s intensive care unit complaining of headaches, blurred vision, dizziness and blood clots in the back of her legs and in her hands — and with heart rate and blood pressure levels that seemed to rise and fall like a bad roller-coaster ride, she said) that Brittany had a tumor on the left side of her skull that manifested as a rash on the upper-outside part of the side of her face. 
 
 “She couldn’t get rid of the headaches, or eat, or hold anything down,” Barbara Mathis said. 
 
 Three days after hospital emergency room doctors had reviewed a battery of medical tests, and confirmed their grave concern for Brittany (and especially after learning that Brittany’s late father, John Mathis, had died in 2000 from the same type of medical issue, at the age of 33) she was urged to see a specialist. 
 
 Brittany and her mother sought out the emergency room doctor’s recommended specialist, who after examining her medical litany of tests said he couldn’t help her, Brittany and Barbara Mathis said. 
 
 “He was just very rude, and after he looked at the MRI and CAT scan, he said it wouldn’t effect me for a few years,” Brittany said. “He said there was nothing he could do, and I was thinking it was because I didn’t have any health insurance, that’s why he wouldn’t help me.” 
 
 Seeking a second opinion, Brittany and her mother called the office of another recommended specialist associated with a different hospital in the region, and despite repeated calls and numerous messages with office staff, she hasn’t received one telephone call back, Brittany said. Again, she and her mother believe it is because Brittany doesn’t have health insurance. 
 
 The 19-year-old Mathis has yet to follow the federal mandate requiring she register for the Affordable Care Act, she said. 
 
 De Beyer, who has become a close family friend of the Mathis’ (and who also employs her 20-year-old sister Kay as a waitress) through their work together at his restaurant, said he is concerned, and that time is of the essence. 
 
 Kaiserhaus Restaurant and Wunderbar are located off Texas 105 on Commerce-Row Drive on a 1.5-acre corner lot in a 6,000-square-foot building, De Beyer said. 
 
 “I have listed my restaurant for several years and recently turned down an (owner-financed) offer for $1.3 million,” he said. “But now I want to auction it off at a reserve price (or minimum bid — 50 percent of the actual value) and anything above that will go to help Brittany.” 
 
 Brittany’s father John had a tumor in the back of his skull, she said, which caused him to have a brain aneurysm. 
 
 “Michael (De Beyer) has been a real blessing to our family,” Brittany said. “And he’s just always been there whenever we’ve needed anything.” 

 Boss selling Montgomery restaurant to save employee with brain tumor 
 
 MONTGOMERY, Texas -- Along Highway 105 in Montgomery, you'll find the Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar. You'll also find a waitress extraordinaire named Brittany Mathis. 
 
 "I have my good days and my bad," said Mathis. 
 
 The 19-year-old employee doesn't look or sound sick, but she is -- and everyone at the authentic German restaurant knows it. 
 
 It started with a rash on her leg. 
 
 "I went to the hospital and found out it was my blood clotting," Mathis told us. "So, they wanted to keep me and do CAT scans and MRIs and the next day they came in and told me I had a tumor." 
 
 Mathis doesn't have insurance and hasn't yet signed up for Affordable Healthcare. The medical bills are piling up and she can't even afford to find out if the tumor is benign or malignant. 
 
 That's where her boss comes in. 
 
 "I just can't be standing by and doing nothing," said Kaiserhof owner Michael De Beyer. "I have to try something because it's not right." 
 
 So De Beyer has decided to sell his family's 6,000 square foot restaurant and donate money to Mathis. 
 
 "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 Mathis family has been through a lot. 
 
 Mathis' older sister and mom work at the restaurant too. 
 
 In 2000, Brittany's dad John Mathis, had a brain tumor that no one knew about. When it ruptured, it was unexpected and fatal. 
 
 "I guess sort of the same thing Brittany is going through," admitted Barbara Mathis, Brittany's mom. "I just want her to get help." 
 
 The idea that someone could give so much is a bit overwhelming for the entire Mathis family. 
 
 "I really think it’s an amazing blessing and can't thank him enough and his family," Mathis said. "Never thought that anybody would do that and he did and it makes me feel really good." 
 
 De Beyer said he has owned the restaurant for 17 years and believes it's worth as much as $2 million. He also wants to sell the business to spend more time with his wife and two children. 
 
 He's tried to sell the restaurant before, and once turned down an offer for $1.3 million. 
 
 If you would like to help Brittany, you can make a donation at any Woodforest National Bank. The account is in the name Michael De Beyer. 
 
 Account # 135437895 

 January 7, 2014 10:50 AM 
 
 The owner of a large, authentic German restaurant is selling his business of 17 years with the hope of providing a young employee with a brain tumor enough money to pay her growing medical bills. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images) 
 
 Montgomery, Texas (CBS HOUSTON) – The owner of a large, authentic German restaurant is selling his business of 17 years with the hope of providing a young employee with a brain tumor enough money to pay her growing medical bills. 
 
 Brittany Mathis, 19, is an employee at the Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery. Working alongside her mother and older sister, Mathis is currently unable to afford medical treatment for a brain tumor – the same condition that unexpectedly proved fatal for her father in 2000, KHOU-TV reports. 
 
 “I have my good days and my bad,” Mathis told KHOU. “I went to the hospital and found out it was my blood clotting. So, they wanted to keep me and do CAT scans and MRIs and the next day they came in and told me I had a tumor.” 
 
 Mathis doesn’t have insurance. Meanwhile, her diagnosis and treatment procedures have come to a halt as massive medical bills have continued to pile up. 
 
 However, Kaiserhof owner Michael De Beyer has stepped in to help the Mathis family. 
 
 “I just can’t be standing by and doing nothing,” De Beyer told KHOU. “I have to try something because it’s not right. 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.” 
 
 De Beyer, who has owned the restaurant for nearly two decades, says the 6,000-foot restaurant may be worth as much as $2 million, and profits can help the mass of medical bills amassing for the Mathis family. In addition to Mathis’ medical bills, De Beyer said he wants to spend more time with his own wife and two children. 
 
 Mathis’ mother, Barbara, said that the sudden death of her husband from a brain tumor rupture in 2000 is very similar to her daughter’s condition today. 
 
 “I guess sort of the same thing Brittany is going through,” she told KHOU. “I just want her to get help.” 
 
 But right now, the Mathis’ are feeling blessed for De Beyer’s good will. 
 
 “I really think it’s an amazing blessing and can’t thank him enough and his family,” Brittany Mathis said. “Never thought that anybody would do that and he did and it makes me feel really good.”
– A Texas man is selling the restaurant he's owned for 17 years—which he figures is worth some $2 million—to help a 19-year-old employee handle her mounting medical bills. "I'm not able to just sit by and let it happen. I couldn't live with myself," Michael De Beyer, owner of the Houston-area Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar, tells the Courier. Waitress Brittany Mathis was diagnosed with a brain tumor after visiting the hospital with a rash on her leg, KHOU reports. "It was my blood clotting," Mathis says. "So, they wanted to keep me and do CAT scans and MRIs and the next day they came in and told me I had a tumor." The tumor is the size of a ping-pong ball, the Courier reports. But Mathis doesn't have insurance, and she hasn't yet signed up for ObamaCare. According to CBS Houston, her treatment has stopped amid growing costs, and she's not yet sure if the tumor is malignant or benign. But her father died after a brain tumor ruptured in 2000. "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," De Beyer says (Mathis' mother and sister work at the restaurant).