Hellbender,
There is no mystery as to what Kawasaki dealers do for each service. It is right in the manual. Assuming, of course, that they are actually DOING all of those things.
And yes, checking the valve clearances is quite a bit easier than actually pulling the cams and swopping out the shims. Checking is only a chore because of all of the ancillary bits that have to come off to expose the engine (easy now...). Pulling the cams is real mechanic stuff, or installing them is at least. My local dealer NEVER gets their grubby paws on mine.
Got the bike with a "recent" valve adjustment according to the seller. It had 53,000 miles and ran fine, so maybe Kawasaki in Houston did a great job. With no list of clearances, I could not verify that they were even measured. AND, with no map of the actual shim sizes, I wonder if they ever had the cams out. I checked them at about 80,000 miles, and replaced/juggled all of the exhausts. Every one was too tight or at least on the tight end of the tolerance. Every intake was within spec, so I left the intake cam in. Sometime this Fall, I will check again. We will be at 125,000-130,000 by then. I expect to have both cams out.
Adjusting the valves, along with most of the maintenance, is CHEAP if you do it yourself...
TIRES are a different story entirely.