Have you ever wondered why only certain service jobs get tipped? Who decided to tip the waitress but not the cook? Or the shoe shine guy but not the fire medic? Or the barber but not the trash collector?

I leave a half case of Budweiser on the trashcan around Christmas time.

I might try that....maybe then Northport Trash Collection would stop treating my garbage can like a rented mule. Thing is dang near destroyed.

I guess I still don't understand.

If you leave the server a $5 bill and he/she puts it in their pocket, how is it different than mailing it to them. Other than they get it right then.

I can see not wanting to tip on credit card if restaurant owner was counting it against their wages

Didn't mean any offense to your friend. I'm sure great fella

^^^^^^^^ This

The employer required servers to tally up their tips at the end of the day. Then he counted that amount against their wages. The employer essentially counted tips toward the wage he owed servers. That is wrong at so many levels. So Dr. Walker outsmarted the owner by mailing his tip to the servers so they didn't have to show it at the end of their shift.

Bravo to Dr. Walker and that effort. Too many servers get treated like crap to begin with by their employees and some customers. They don't need the extra BS of having tips counted against wages.

I wonder if anyone told the truth. Sounds like GameCheck

Also sounds like a great system to promote lazy rude servers.

If everyone is getting paid X amount whether you get tips or not

avoiding a sandwich shop because you think it isn't manly is the least manly thing I can think of. A true alpha would eat wherever he found convenient and never even consider picking one place over another in an effort to seem more masculine.

I only tip at sit down joints and yes it annoys me to have to zero out a tip on a credit card receipt at a place that doesnt deserve one

I've come to notice at some places if you pay with cash. Say your bill is 14.35. They bring 5 $1 bills back out. They kept the .65. I guarantee my tip will be a dollar less than it would have been.

Well the way math is taught today doesn't seem to involve learning addition and subtraction of money. So they can't count change any more.

I never have not been given all my money back when the change is returned. No reputable place would do that. They may bring five $1 bills back but the change would be returned as well.

Which places do this to you? And where are they located?

I just usually give them a piece of Fruit Stripe gum.

I have had that happen the opposite where they actually have given me $6 dollars back. I think some places and wait staff hate dealing with the change. However, if they short you, even a few cents, they are idiots who deserve what they get.

What I hate, and I have only had it a few times, is when you pay cash and they don't bring you any change, like they assume you just are going to give them that much in a tip. I had it happen once where I gave a girl $100 bill on a $55.00 tap. When I ask her where my change was, she actually told me she thought I meant the extra as a tip.

Most recently Sams Sports Bar in Decatur. Saturday was the first time it had happened there.

places that I frequent regularly do it, after years of never taking the change I guess they figured I didn't want it and save us both time.

I certainly don't mind.

would be odd if they didn't know you