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Covington said in a statement to WXII. "I have always left a good tip at Kanpai Restaurant , even when I was given poor and less than honorable service."

I highly doubt that is true. Waiters and waitresses do a slow burn when a customers keeps returning and stealing from them each time. I tip so I end up subsidizing the greedy a-holes that don't

Waiters and waitresses do a slow burn when a customers keeps returning and stealing from them each time.

The customer is stealing? Quite the opposite - the customer is bringing in revenues that allows the restaurant to exist. The restaurant owner and the employees should be darned thankful for customers coming through the door - they are not thieves. The customer has no obligation to pay but what is on the ticket. Waiter wages are an internal matter between the owner and employees, and are not the customer's problem. How can a restaurant pay less than minimum wages? If anyone is "stealing", it is the tightwad employer. No one put a gun to the waiter's head to work there either. Do you tip *everyone* you do business with? We don't ever receive tips where I work - first rate service is expected from us regardless. Why should restaurants be different? Tipping for excellent service, is great, but it is not mandatory. If the service is poor, I'll take my business elsewhere and the economic consequences of their poor attitudes can run their course.

I highly doubt that is true. Waiters and waitresses do a slow burn when a customers keeps returning and stealing from them each time. I tip so I end up subsidizing the greedy a-holes that don't

Did the customer pay the price of the meal? If so, she didn't "steal" from anyone. The only one stealing from the staff are the owners of the Restaurant. The Restaurants need to either pay their staff better, even if it means jacking up the prices.

I very seldom leave tips and I very seldom eat out because I cannot stand to be held up by people who think they are owed a tip for doing their job.

Tipping is BS. The meal comes with a price, that price is supposed to represent the cost of doing business, if they need to jack up the prices to pay their staff better then they should do it. Tipping is merely the way restaurants get out of having to pay their staff what they are worth. If the owner doesn't think they are worth more than minimum wage then why should think they are worth more.

All of you people who grouse about tipping have rocks in your fickin' heads, you are being ripped off. Not tipping rips no one off, it merely saves you money.

Let me ask you a question: Do you ever eat at a McDs or Burger King or any other fast food place and if you do, do you tip? Most likely not. So explain that to me, why do you think the minimum wage waiter, bus boys etc. at some restaurants should be tipped but not the fast food staff?

Tipping: The biggest rip off in America except for Global Warming.