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That may explain why I've hardly ever had a bad experience in a restaurant. That's not to say I put up with waiters with a surly attitude, because they'll get a piss-poor tip (which sends a stronger message than leaving no tip at all). But any problems of that sort weren't brought on by anything I did, and in any case it happens to me very rarely. I'm nice and very understanding, especially if the place is understaffed. (How many of us have had to work twice as hard and run in ten different directions at once, and put up with customer complaints about delays because somebody else didn't show up for work?) and I get good service in return, in spite of being short-staffed, by grateful and apologetic waiters.

This sort of thing, how you treat people who wait on you, including wait staff, bag boys, checkout girls, cab drivers, bellhops, bank tellers, etc., is not a political or economic subject; not for me, at least. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat people who wait on them.