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With people jumping the obviously sinking ship that was my previous employer, we ended up having large group "goodbye lunches" almost every week for the last few months. At several restaurants, the waitstaff did something interesting: there were always several credit cards, sometimes up to 15 or more. So people would just write down on a slip of paper how much they wanted their card to be charged, and added it to the stack. When the receipts came back, they would have been automatically split into "dollar amount" and "tip amount"--that is, if I wrote down $12 next to my name, my card receipt would actually show $10.68, and then $1.32 pre-printed on the tip line. (Or something close, I'm too lazy to do the math right now.) It's only just now occurred to me that maybe they did this to account for the "required" gratuity in their paperwork.
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