I wait tables, and you are required by law to report all your tips. Well, where I work, our credit card tips are automatically claimed for us. So all we claim is cash tips at the end of the day.
so, when I look at the merchant copy of the credit card reciept- or debit- we enter the total amount at the bottom. Example: bill= 25$ you tipped=5$ total that we put in the computer=30$. Then the computer asks us: ” tip amount is 5$?” we click yes or no.
So more details please. I know that sometimes people take the wrong copy, and we end up getting the blank paper, which means no tip. Very frustrating! People sometimes think they are carbon, or just accidently get in a hurry and don’t pay attention.
Hope that helped! Leave your tips in cash! We like that!