Multimillionaire presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and top aide Huma Abedin did not leave a tip at Ohio Chipotle - and yes, there WAS a jar on the counter

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Hillary Clinton and top aide Huma Abedin didn't leave a tip during their now infamous stop at an Ohio Chipotle on Monday - despite there being a jar on the counter.

'Her bill was $20 and some change, and they paid with $21 and left,' Charles Wright, manager of the Maumee, Ohio, restaurant, told Bloomberg.

To be fair, multimillionaire 'Clinton didn't pay' for the meal, according to Wright.

'The other lady paid the bill,' he said, referring to Abedin, the vice chairwoman of Clinton's campaign. She was spotted standing next to Clinton in security camera footage released by the Toledo-area store. 

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Spotted: Hillary and Huma order at Chipotle in Maumee, Ohio, at lunchtime Monday- the first time they had been seen since they started their cross-country road trip. But nobody in the restaurant recognized them during their 45-minute meal. The manager says they didn't leave a tip

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Not every Chipotle restaurant has a jar for change. And many customers pay with a card. But Wright assured Bloomberg that his location does, and customers usually leave a little something behind.

'We get a bunch of tips,' the 29-year-old said. 'If we're doing our job right, people tip.' 

Clinton and Abedin dropped by the Maumee restaurant incognito for lunch just after 1 pm on Monday during their road trip from New York to Iowa for the first round of campaign events.

Traveling in an armored van they fondly call 'Scooby' after the 1970s cartoon program and wearing dark sunglasses, they reportedly strolled into Chipotle, waited their turn in line and ordered a chicken burrito bowl - with guacamole - a chicken salad, a blackberry Izzy soda and a regular soda without being recognized.

It wasn't until after Clinton was back on the road that her campaign alerted the press to the lunch outing. Reporters were then able to obtain security camera footage from the store that proved Clinton had in fact dined there. 

A former first lady, secretary of state, New York senator, Clinton's net worth fell somewhere between $5 million and $25 million in 2012, the last time she was required by the government to disclose her earnings.

She's since written a memoir, for which she received a hefty $14 million advance, and made at least $5 million more off of speaking gigs.

Together, she and husband Bill have an estimated net worth of roughly $100,000 million, but the public won't know for sure until she files a disclosure form in the course of her national campaign.

A key feature of Clinton's second attempt for the presidency was supposed to be her interactions with 'everyday' Americans, meant to show how down to earth and approachable the wealthy New Yorker is.

But Clinton made no attempts at the Chipotle to introduce herself, the manager indicated, or mingle with other burrito-goers.

'The thing is, she has these dark sunglasses on,' Wright told the New York Times after it inquired about her visit. 'She just was another lady.'

The Daily Mail Online yesterday learned that an impromptu round table that Clinton held at a coffee shop with three young people was completely staged by her campaign. 

A Clinton staffer vetted the young people, all of whom had ties to the Democratic Party, and drove them to the site of the meet and greet.

Clinton is pictured here arriving at the Iowa Statehouse yesterday for a meeting with Democratic Party lawmakers in Des Moines. To her left is Iowa Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal

This is the branch of Chipotle in Maumee, Ohio, where Hillary and her right-hand woman Huma Abedin were spotted at 1:13 p.m. local time on Monday

The question of whether Clinton left a tip at Chipotle was first raised by conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh during his Tuesday broadcast.

Explaining to his listeners the concept of Chipotle, Limbaugh noted, 'There's a tip jar in there.'

'And I would be interested to learn if Mrs. Clinton put anything in it. I mean, she's out there representing the little guy. She's out there campaigning against the rich,' he said, pointing out that Clinton is in the 1 percent of top earners.

Further chiding her for failing to alert other diners to her presence, Limbaugh said, 'I thought this is an everyman tour. I thought this was a tour where Hillary Clinton was gonna meet the people that she's standing up for, that she's representing, that she's doing everything she's doing for the little guy, doing it for them. 

'She slithers in to Chipotle, doesn't get recognized, doesn't seek to be recognized,' he said. 'Wearing the dark glasses is a favored technique of celebrities trying to hide' - not of political candidates.

He also suggested, correctly, that Clinton probably didn't pay for her meal, her assistant did. 

'You know, celebrities like that are famous for walking around with no money and no credit card because they're so accustomed to somebody else picking up the check. The Clintons really rate high on that scale.'

Mystery: Until the security camera footage of Hillary and Huma surfaced around four hours after they ate at Chipotle, nobody knew where the presidential candidate was. Clinton made no attempts at the Chipotle to introduce herself, the manager indicated, or mingle with other burrito-goers

Continuing Limbaugh said, he really would 'like to know if she left anything in the tip jar, because that would be an indication that she understands the average, ordinary, everyman that she seeks to represent.

'I mean, that's where the people that work at Chipotle, that's where they make a little extra, in the tip jar, and I haven't heard a word about whether or not she visited the tip jar, whether she put anything in it or not.'

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus picked up the ball and began running with it on Wednesday, telling Fox News that Clinton's strategy is to 'make sure the field knows that she's running, and then not answer any questions from the media, and not actually talk to anybody.'

'If you want to be successful, ' he said, especially in early primary states, 'you've got to take the sunglasses off and actually go and talk to people. And actually care about what people think,' he said, according to Business Insider.

'This is Iowa; it's not Hollywood,' he said.