I pay with a debit card and leave it on the tab for this very reason.
At the casino I leave chips and give it to them.
When I was a waitress this usually happened with church groups, yep church groups. A couple of people would leave a nice tip and somebody else from the group would pick it up before the table was cleared. I won’t mention the usual make up of these groups but they sure did like a lot of sugar in their ice teas. Like tons.
We befriended a black waitress at one of the local restaurants. She told us that the waitresses finally had to adopt a turn type policy when a black client would enter. Nobody wanted them because they knew they would be high maintenance and the tips would be non-existent.
Well, the Bacon Biscuit Batterer from the McD’s in Wisconsin was caught, maybe there’s hope this gal will be ratted out by someone.
Everyone knows Black folks don’t leave much in the way of tips, but now we have documented proof that they steal the tips left by whites.
One more reason to actually hand a cash tip to the waiter/waitress in person, rather than leave it on the table.
Amen.
Waiter didn’t look at all happy. I wonder if he’d been away from the table, for some time.
During a restaurant visit I witnessed a couple who had just finished their meal and were both standing, arguing about the tip. The woman wanted to leave money on the table and he did not. She placed the money on the table and he stopped arguing and pretended to give up and to follow her out, but not before swiping the money from the table when her back was turned. They both left with a smile on their face. Poor waiter.