Should we do away with tipping in the food service industry?

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  • Olivia - 9 years ago

    Tipping, in my opinion, exists for two reasons: 1) to shift the costs of fairly paying workers from businesses to consumers; and 2) to make people who get off on having money feel like they own their server for a short period of time. Tipping facilitates sexual harassment, racial microaggressions against both servers and customers, and wage theft (in the form of improperly divided tips). It's nonsense and it should end.

    A dude named Jay Porter operated "The Linkery", a tipless restaurant in San Diego from 2006-2013 and wrote about the experience from a business owner's perspective on his blog at jayporter.com. He said one of the weirdest things he observed after implementing this system wasn't that people complained about the addition of a flat "service charge", it was the restaurant's refusal to allow people to tip beyond the service fee, even if they wanted to. Mr. Porter said: "A certain small number of very vocal men (and it was always men who were vocal about it) resented that we were not letting them try to exercise additional control over our team members." That basically says it all.

    Link to the stories about the tipless restaurant system. http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-1-overview/

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