Banning tipping is not for you, as the customer, it's for the worker. If tips were banned, they'd just be part of the price and you'd still be paying it. When you refuse to tip, it's just free riding.
No, really? I’d gladly pay 10%-15% more to get eliminate tipping. Tipping sucks for consumers, sucks for employees, and is rooted in the worst parts of our history.
> I’d gladly pay 10%-15% more to get eliminate tipping.
Next time you tip, inform your server that it has nothing to to with their performance, you're actually just adding what they would have made if they were paid appropriately to the base price.
edit: I'm not being facetious, I have added 20% no matter what for at least 20 years. I've tipped servers that I'm pretty sure I hated.
edit: You're paying less for your meals than you would in your hypothetical ideal circumstance irt tipping, and that difference is coming out of the server's pocket. If it doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother you, but you're no freedom fighter.
Advocating for an annoying at best, repressive and anti-worker at worst, system doesn’t make you any better than me, and your assumption I think I am some “freedom fighter” for seeing it for what it really is makes you look disingenuous.
Business owners are shirking their responsibility to pay a living wage. They’re also setting up a socioeconomic reality that pits customers against workers to absolve them of that responsibility.
Go ahead and keep advocating for tipping though, I’m sure you’re really making progress.
