I too always tip in cash and I always put it in the waiter’s hand so that some half hearted table cleaner can’t palm it up.
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“I always put it in the waiter’s hand o that some half hearted table cleaner can’t palm it up.”
We give the cash directly to the waiter, too. And not just because of bus people or other waters could scoop it up. Other customers steal it, too.
An owner of a restaurant we go to said that a group of about six office workers came in for lunch about once a week. After they’d left the restaurant, one of the group would come back in and scoop up the tips her co-workers had left. When the owner mentioned it to someone in the group later on she said they thought it was odd that the thief always would make an excuse that she had left something at the table and had to go back to get it.