The soup arrives lukewarm, dessert does not arrive at all, and the bill bears little relation to what was ordered. Even so, the restaurant patron is likely to add 15% to the check for the waiter or waitress, then go home grumbling about the injustices of tipping. For the dissatisfied diner who is too timid to complain aloud, there is a palatable remedy: a union of restaurant victims called Tippers International.
Founded two years ago by John Schein, a traveling nuts-and-bolts salesman from Oshkosh, Wis., Tippers International now claims 2,700 members in the...
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