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Of course. Practically every other restaurant in USA is charging much lower prices with their much lower wages.
Remove that from the equation (make them all pay actual human wages for people so that they can live in houses and so forth), and no restaurant in USA can do that. Problem solved.
Somehow, restaurants ALL OVER THE EARTH can stay open without tipping.
Figure it out
USA resident here.
The only way it'll work is making tip culture illegal.
Raising minimum wage and undoing the underpaid tippers law.
There's a special law that allows restaurants to pay something like $2/hr and expect them to get tips. Sure there is a clause for owners to cover the rest to match minimum wage but that's still BS.
Again. Tip culture won't go away until it's made to by law.
It started out at bribery for better service at restaurants damnit. Then somehow got morphed into a law to allow owners to pay thier staff less. What. The. Fuck. Capitalism.
What's worse. Carry out places all have tip prompts. A tip for what? Putting my donut in a bag? That's literally your only job.
I never tip anywhere unless I sit down at a place to eat and actually recieve a restaurant experience. Someone cooks a meal and a waiter checks in on me.
Call me cheap or an asshole but I'm not tipping at any takeout spot.
Worse, it started out as a way to not pay non-whites a decent wage while ensuring they must act servile to get by.
I too wish we lived in that reality in the US, but we don’t. Any more than we use the metric system or have universal healthcare. Maybe one day.
But today, ask anyone in a tipped position if they’d rather work in a restaurant and get paid a flat “livable” wage and they’d say no. So if they don’t want the system to change and obviously the restaurant owners don’t either, you can’t really advocate for the system to change saying it’s on their behalf.
other countries still have tipping. it's just not necessary to survive.
I'd gladly swap if I got an actually livable wage.
Serving is far from the worst thing i've done for $20/hr. The problem is that 'eliminating tipping' means i'd make $7-12 per hour, which wouldn't even pay rent.