&gt;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.<p>A tip is fully extra incentive.  The waiter is not my employee, and the social expectation of a tip is a horrible practice (imagine if we replaced the expectation with someone that wasn&#x27;t financial in nature).<p>&gt;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>This sounds kinda close to a personal attack.  Not to mention there is a vast difference between threatening to not leave a tip (&quot;if you don&#x27;t split this check then I won&#x27;t tip you&quot;) and what the parent post did (bringing up how refusing customer service right before a tip is given is likely to hurt the tip, never mentioning if this was a conscious or subconscious behavior change made by the tipper).