[Engineering-MD]

That is nice, and I really resonate with that. But I would be interested to know: would you still tip if you knew they now no longer catered for the broke college student? Are you tipping as a thank you to how they treated your historical self, or an incentive to keep up a good culture? For me I would feel conflicted about tipping and not tipping

[tpmoney]

I'm not quite sure I understand you question. I would tip in this manner for as long as they remained a place that was open 24/7/365. They weren't catering to the broke college student crowd, they're just one of those diners that's always open, of which there are a handful in most states. Usually the crowd they're catering to, if there is one are third shift employees and overnight truckers.

Even if they were paying their employees a full wage and not as tipped servers, I would still be tipping in this manner. It's an expression of gratitude to the people who – whether by choice or by necessity – make it so that even someone with no place to go on a holiday can have some place to go.

If that doesn't answer the question you were asking, as I said, I wasn't 100% clear on it so my apologies.