[Vendome]

Jail anyone who skims tips a minimum of 5 year or summarily shoot them at dawn.

Wait staff are your sales people and should be justly rewarded for upselling customers as well for giving them a reason return

[MNDude]

NOBODY tips so the owner can skim some of it. That’s as sleazy as it comes.

[SunkenCiv]

One of my favorite eateries used to pool all tips, to make sure that the cooks got a cut. They had a lot of waitress turnover, but since it only had a capacity of about 45 persons, that was likely to happen anyway. But I’m not sure how this no-skimming rule pertains to the usual gubmint shakedown of restaurants and their employees, regarding uncollected income taxes on tips...

[Alberta's Child]

There's actually a legitimate reason for a restaurant to skim a small portion of a tip.

If you pay with a credit card and you tip $10, the restaurant has to pay the credit card processing fee on the entire bill -- including the tip. They end up paying this cost themselves.