re: #256 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
As long as an restaurant owner can pay the slave wages; tipping is here to stay.
Good waiters I’ve known like the tipping system. They think they’re worth more than the other waiters. Which “good waiters” are (worth more, I mean).
Tipping is like commission IMHO. Waiters give better service because their income depends on it. “Waiting” also one of the last areas in which a person can make a living wage with little or no education.
I know one waiter in Chicago that makes over 6 figures. He wouldn’t trade it for anything. Get’s to be home with his kids during the day etc …