Any employee of a restaurant who fills a pepper shaker up to the very top so laws of physics make it impossible to shake any pepper out of it shall be shot at dawn, by me.
In most every restaurant I have ever been I am forced to unscrew the top of their pepper shaker, pour a small pile of pepper into my hand, put the shaker down and dispense it with my thumb and forefinger. This has been the case most always INCLUDING those restaurants owned by friends who I mentioned the problem to no avail. It is hard shooting your friends but you gotta do what you gotta do. Pick your fights.
Oh, and people who eat lots of all kinds of pepper live longer than those who do not, so I will be shooting restaurant employees for a long time to come. Well if I can get hold of that hat anyway.