Many restaurants and other businesses have discounts for police and EMS. I avoided places that were free. A few officers I worked with flocked to theses places. It was always the same guys. These guys would abuse it so much that the businesses would stop the freebies. When I first got out of the academy I was adamant about not accepting gratuities. I was taught is was unethical and unprofessional. Then I went to get coffee and insisted I pay which made the teenage girl at the counter cry because she thought her boss would fire her. I learned to take the coffee and leave a big tip. Personally I did not care about the discount. I just wanted them not to spit or worse in my food. The best favor a business could do for me was to have a clean employee bathroom and let me use it. Today I tell businesses if the want extra police presence - give the officers your WiFi password. You will get a guy on night shift sitting in the parking lot half his shift.