Nice tip I know i am bad with not keeping my ccard receipts but I will now :)

That's it!  I'm never watching a Patrick Swayze movie again! Okay, I wasn't going to anyway, but I think I'll be staying away from the Roadhouse Grill.

I suppose it's possible there was a company policy to have mandatory tips on the drive-up service, but if that was the case, your friend should have been told about it and it should have been on her receipt. NO TIP is a good idea as it makes it quite clear what you intended. Also, always fill in the total line so that way someone has to alter two areas of the reciept. This is particularly important if you do leave a tip so they won't try to inflate the tip. I also always insist on getting a final charge receipt (what comes out of the charge machine after they run the final bill with tip through) before leaving a restaurant, even if it does mean waiting another 10 or 15 minutes. This seems to prevent any such foolery since you'll catch them "in the act" so to speak.

The worst thing I've had happen with these precautions was an inept server who mixed together the bill for my table and another table in the restaurant. Not only did we get charged for their wine, the gift card we had got applied to their bill so we were overcharged by almost $60. To make matters worse, the other table got their bill first and made a quick beeline for the door, so the server was rather reluctant to bring the manager in until I got rather nasty about it. And the server's little act about not knowing how to fix it or if it could be fixed would have been bought by some sadly. There were those in my family at the table that were willing to eat the $60 to not "hassle" the server if they had been paying. Of course, there are people in my family known to eat whatever they get served at a restaurant even if it's nowhere near what they ordered, just to avoid confrontation. But I have to wonder if servers try to pad the tip part of the bill hoping that the patrons either don't notice or won't bother confrontation over a small dollar amount. If my non-confrontational family members were willing to eat a $60 mistake, you can bet they would definately not bother reporting a $6 one.

Thanks for the heads up.

My Father-In-Law in Florida was telling me about Pizza Huts back there having employees that were taking pictures of your CC with their cell phones, them using your number for catalog purchases. We live in a society  where you need to think of every possibility of thievery. My Daughter received a call the other night from some scammer in Nigeria. Be Very Aware!

Thanks for the alert! On the flip side, I do think one should give a minimal tip for pick up/to go orders. Even if its only $1 or $2 dollars. Just my opinion.

Wow, proam that scares me more than ever.  That's an excellent tip.

ghost, I thought it was gonna be an added tip too like Shwaine said.  I too have no idea when extras are added on.  I try to use ATM most of the time, so I can see it instantly on my account online. 

My dad had his cc# jacked at a restaurant by one of those number scanners from a wait staff.  Identify theft is HUGE.

I ALWAYS, Zero w/ a line through it on ALL receipts at restaurants. I never pay a tip with my credit card and better never see one either. I always hand my waiter the tip in cash, there's no need to add it to the receipt.  If they do,,, I'll be back. ;=)))

I had my credit card number stolen a decade ago by an employee at a (now closed) local veterinary office. Back then, they still printed the full CC number on the carbon copy receipts that the business kept. I guess the employee didn't want to pay for Christmas gifts that year, because there was about $200 in charges to a couple of NYC mail order shops that showed up on my January bill. Seeing as I typically spend less than $200 on everyone during Christmas shopping and never shop at NYC mail order stores, the charges rather stood out at me, but I have to wonder how many other clients didn't even notice the extra charges on their January bills. A couple extra hundred of Christmas shopping on a joint account might just be assumed to be a spouse splurging or something like that.

I called the CC company and the BPD. A few days later, the detective in charge of the case called and asked if I'd ever used the card at that veterinary office. So either others did notice and the detective saw a pattern of use or the employee was foolish enough to have the stolen goods shipped to either work or home and the detective tracked it down that way. The detective called a few more times over the next couple of weeks, but then that was the end of it. I never got called to testify or notified of a trial, so I can only assume it never went to trial for some reason. Back then, CC theft was not as big of deal as it is now. That was the start of the whole ID theft era. The detective did give me a one page printout on how to place fraud alerts on my credit bureua files, but that was about it for ID theft prevention.