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I would never steal the tip, but once in awhile I will scoop it up and put it where I was sitting. The tip remains the same but that way I can get the credit for it…
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Okanogan: I doubt very seriously it was a "Boomer" tip thief - MUCH more likely a co-worker (busboy, drug influenced co-waitress etc etc etc) or observant opportunist customer!
Be sure and let us know what the video confirms.
Sorry the sons holiday surprise was spoil't!
I always make sure the waitress gets handed the bill - the money for the bill and the tip.
NEVER leave money out ANYWHERE in this day and age where it can simply be "picked up and walked away with"!
Hold into the wind
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I'd not though about the tip being stolen, I'll try to remember this.
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I was at a nice place, and though some of changing tips with another table, but that would have been stealing from the other folks. You devil , you! It’s always the quiet ones.
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We were at the Riverview Lodge in Dryden, Ontario. Everything was good, I wanted to leave a fair tip, the table next to had a paper bill, I knew a five is the smallest bill Canada has. We both tipped five bucks. 
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I only tip in cash and I only give said cash to the person I wish to tip.
What if Jessie's girl is Stacy's mom, and her phone number is 867-5309
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I make it a habit of giving my tip directly to the waitress. Every waitress that i have gotten to know all talk about tips being stolen.
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It was the tipper herself that I watched a week or so back. An elderly mother and daughter had finished their meal and the daughter made a show of getting the tip and put it on the table. The older woman took out her credit card and headed for the cashier and as soon as her back was turned, zip, the daughter scooped up the tip money and put it back into her purse! That one took "I'll get the tip" very literally.
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I'd not though about the tip being stolen, I'll try to remember this. Not to worry Wabi, a coffe cup will still cover three quarters
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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Exactly the same happened to us.
Wife and I ate at the place out daughter worked, I left a decent tip for her.
She had told us not too. Didn't feel we should tip her.
When she didn't mention it for a couple days, I ask. Someone stole it.
Maybe a 10th of the OP, but a good lesson for her.
She learned to cruise past the table if someone was getting up.
She bussed her own tables so it was a waitress or customer.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Tell the grandson, next time show up at her house wearing a Speedo and a black clip-on bow tie with the Hondo tucked into the waistband.
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That is exactly why I never leave a cash tip, only CC. I've observed customers slyly scooping up tips from other tables on their way out, also. Leaving a Benjamin behind is just asking for it to be stolen. I have two daughters who are servers. They get to keep cash tips, CC tips get split between cooks, dishwashers, and servers. They keep the cash tips without reporting them? Good for them. God forbid the cooks and dishwashers get a bump I usually put it on the card for just this reason.
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Likely by another of the waitstaff. Busboy perhaps? Yep ^^^This^^^
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It was the tipper herself that I watched a week or so back. An elderly mother and daughter had finished their meal and the daughter made a show of getting the tip and put it on the table. The older woman took out her credit card and headed for the cashier and as soon as her back was turned, zip, the daughter scooped up the tip money and put it back into her purse! That one took "I'll get the tip" very literally. Why doesn’t that surprise me… theft just the same
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Boomers steal all the time.
Home Depot and Walmart self checkout.
Some steal gloves out of packages that get delivered to them by mistake.
Boomers stealing tips wouldn’t surprise me.
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I always put the tip in my wait person’s hand.
Especially at my mexican dive. That place is fulla shîtbirds and shady dirtbags like blackheart and other white trash. Yep. Never feel good about leaving cash on the table.
I am MAGA.
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Tip in cash if you want the staff to see it.
My sister inlaw worked for a real A hole out in the San Joaquin Delta. If the tip went on CC they never saw it.
The place burned down a couple yeas ago
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I would never steal the tip, but once in awhile I will scoop it up and put it where I was sitting. The tip remains the same but that way I can get the credit for it… Well, you may get credit from the server, but by not magnanimously, yet casually, tossing a wad of bills onto the table you miss out on the impression you make on your companions and anyone else who may be watching, which is the whole point anyway. 
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Buddies wife helps her parents out at a greasy spoon. One server was boosting the tip money she marked a bill and left it on a table later confronts the thief and after adamantly denying it was asked to show her wad and fessed up after getting busted with the evidence
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