I worked at a very small restaurant at one time..a counter and a few booths. An elderly lady would come in occasionally for dinner...her tab came to something like $3.90 (this was a long time ago). She would always leave the the dime she received for a tip but would always pick up her dishes and put them on the counter for me. The effort this sweet lady put in was the best possible tip.
On the other hand, my kids were all servers at one point in their lives. They would tell me stories about people running them ragged then leaving a dollar. Did you know that in many, many restaurants, if a table full of people run out without paying their bill the server is responsible for the debt. I can understand a restaurant not wanting servers to allow friends to come in and then skip out but the whole concept is unfair. There were actually incidents in which the server was running out to the parking lot in tears chasing the customers because the dinner tab far exceeded her weekly wage.
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