I don't know tbh, but a quick search in German law for example has left me under the impression that while the service person has a right to keep a tip by law, the whole topic seems to be a grey area. What makes matters worse is that the tips paid by credit card are going to the account of the owner first and it seems to depend on the willingness of the owner to distribute the tips to the service people afterwards. If the gastronomy business in the Netherlands is similar to Germany, with minimum wage incomes, bad working conditions and a cutthroat environment (and I suspect it is) then I guess a lot of these credit card tips don't make it into the hands of the service person. But that is just my assumption.
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Well, in this case no greasing needed I guess. Not a lot of minimum wage workers will be able or willing to sue their employers. So most of these cases will never see the light of day. Unclear or overly generic laws on how to handle tipping make it even harder to counter systematic embezzlement.