To the people who wrote in with the comments about obese people eating in restaurants- Next time you go out look around at ALL the people and you will see the worse habits are from those that are skinny. Most fat people are self conscience about eating out in public and try not to bring attention to themselves, so they use good manners. Now on to what this message board is about. One of the costs of being in the restaurant biz is people skipping out. As is no tippers. If the biz is finding that it is happening too often they need to change the way they handle the checks. Pay up-front (Golden Corral does it) Different way of exiting so they have to go by the register. Just my opinion.