Sheldon wrote:
> Methinks this article must assume all folks frequent an establishemnt
> but once... it definitely pays to tip, and well, at a restaurant one
> frequents often. Naturally if the experience is such that due to poor
> service you're never going to return then why bother to tip at all, I
> don't, the consumer votes with its pocketbook. There's no rule that
> says poor service deserves a tip anyway.

Methinks also that both the author and the restaurant owner missed the court
case in which demanding addtional "service charges" in the guise of or in
lieu of gratuities, and in the absence of additional services, was found to
be bogus and therefore unenforceable.