u/ThatsMrRandom

Anti-tippers should LOVE the tipping system (and are making their situation worse)

EndTipping did a poll asking what tipping should be replaced with. A 52% majority chose "No increase or fees, prices remain the same, employer is forced to pay living wage".

They view tipping as an extra cost driven by greed, which is why they often slander restaurants that swap tips for mandatory service fees. And look at the very first commented restaurant on EndTipping's "List of No Tip Restaurants" (Sultan Madison). A "Small Plate" menu featuring $32 for 4 chicken wings, $6 for bread, and $16 for potatoes and spinach among other grossly overpriced items.

What anti-tippers really want, is to be able to walk into a full service restaurant with the same pricing and for tipping to simply cease to exist.

What's the only system that allows them to do that?

Ironically, the tipping system.

Tipping is completely voluntary; anyone can walk into a restaurant today and leave without giving a dime. This should be their golden era, yet they continue to fight it, pushing for changes they don't even realize are making things worse.

States have or are in the process of legislating-away the "tipped minimum", which allows businesses to pay $2.13/hour.

Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington got rid of tipped minimum under the guise of forcing employers to pay for the service "instead of customers". Did tipping disappear in those states? Did customary tip percentages drop? Not at all. Businesses simply raised menu prices to cover the higher base wages. Because tips are calculated as a percentage of food costs, tips actually increased alongside menu prices!

TL:DR - Anti-tippers are trying to destroy a voluntary system they can opt out of without realizing it spawns worse alternative models they can't.

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u/ThatsMrRandom — 1 day ago