THE END OF TIPPING?

Law of unintended consequences.

Raise minimum wage? Owner costs go up, labor force reduced, prices for goods rise to try and stay profitable.
To say nothing of the reduction of quality / quantity of product delivered, after adjusting to the new accounting rules & regs.

Then, patron traffic slows or dies.
Dining out becomes unaffordable.
Closure of establishments, job losses, less options available.

Re: cashless transaction trend, it’s the skim-scam money grubbing State, in their quest to net a pound of flesh from all participants. Follow the money.
Thus, the plunder continues in vampire squid fashion.

Opt out. Eat at home. Cook.
You’ll eat healthier, but only slightly less expensively, as rising costs hit grocery suppliers as well.

Who burns, at the restaurants?
Servers, the few that remain.
When a simple lunch costs $20, cuz new minimum wage increases, most patrons, if not opting out, will certainly tip servers less.
Currently, I still tip in cash, at a % worthy of our server’s courtesy, friendliness, work ethic, and patron appreciation.
Good ones who know the game, do very well for themselves, regardless their base hourly wage.

But here again, the FED policies of stealth inflation via fractional reserve bunking, are the base root of the problem.
Yet social justice warriors think pruning select branches improves things.
It doesn’t.
A pruned pickerbush grows back larger and stronger.
Some water sucking weeds need to be uprooted with an axe, and thrown onto a fire, so productive growth of good plants can thrive.

Tipping is and always has been a terribly inefficient, confusing, and unfair method of paying waiters/waitresses and other occupations that expect it (cab drivers, hair dressers, etc.). It would be much simpler and fairer if employers just raised the price of their products by the equivalent amount of the average tip, and then increased the wages of their employees correspondingly. Tips should be reserved for those rare cases of truly exceptional service, as they once were, instead of just being unconditionally expected. However that will never happen because we are too culturally conditioned to tipping.

This guy is full of BS. That waitress supposedly makes $50K/year? OK fine – but why didn’t he tell us what the average waitress makes ($20K/year)? That means that 50% of waitresses make LESS than that. This fact was conveniently left out. At the end he contends that minimum wage should be eliminated altogether and that these waitresses and business owners could then “negotiate” whatever “deal” makes the most sense.