I’d like to see you get everyone in the entire country to agree on ANYTHING, including but not limited to, not tipping.
Tips are what let’s them get away with, by paying tips you are actually subsidizing the owner of the restaurant.
You subsidizing the owner directly by paying the menu price is worse than “just the tip™” by a long shot. At best they start paying bare minimum wage (absolutely not livable) and upcharge you and keep it. You’re so naïve to how it works here I’d bet either you’ve never even been here, or you’ve never left an inuslar bubble much larger than your house.
I’d like to see you get everyone in the entire country to agree on ANYTHING, including but not limited to, not tipping.
You subsidizing the owner directly by paying the menu price is worse than “just the tip™” by a long shot. At best they start paying bare minimum wage (absolutely not livable) and upcharge you and keep it. You’re so naïve to how it works here I’d bet either you’ve never even been here, or you’ve never left an inuslar bubble much larger than your house.