I’ve heard plenty about disgruntled taxpayers — and when we have to pay out of our own pockets, aren’t we almost always disgruntled? — but a server at Cupola experienced how far that can go.

Adrian Hoffman, the corporate chef for the Lark Creek Restaurant Group, was dining at their Cupola in the Westfield San Francisco Centre when a waiter came over and showed him the card  that was inserted in the bill, along with a $3 tip. It came from a couple, and the total bill was about $37.

“We get lots of little cards full of allergies of what customers can’t eat,” said Hoffman in a telephone interview, “ but I’ve never seen this.”  His reaction: shock.  “ We get our fair share of European tourists over the summer and they are notorious for not tipping, but this is different,” he said.

Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle