Two things to come to mind. First, if you&#x27;re actually holding a waiter&#x27;s tip hostage over the ability to split checks, you&#x27;re a shitty person. And the kind of person that threatens to leave a bad tip if the waiter doesn&#x27;t do something is the kind of person that probably tips badly to begin with.<p>Second, time is a zero sum game. If the waiter has to spend several minutes wrestling with the POS to split a check, that&#x27;s several minutes they can&#x27;t be serving other tables, which if the restaurant is busy can mean a degraded experience for other diners (and of course if this leads to someone being unhappy with the service that will likely mean a reduced tip). Of course if the restaurant isn&#x27;t busy and the waiter can afford to spend several minutes on this, then nobody else has to suffer, but if that&#x27;s the case I wouldn&#x27;t expect the waiter to balk at splitting the check (assuming they&#x27;re capable of doing so at all, which as I said before may not be true depending on the POS or on restaurant policy).