So make the face prices higher. I’ll pay $3 more for my food instead of it saying it costs $12 but actually costs $15 just because i’m not a dickwad and I tip. Basically tips are a “decent human being tax” instead of paying servers for what they do.

I dread the day when waiters don’t earn tips and have a set wage. There are quite a few things Europeans get right (I lived in Germany for a while), but restaurant / bar service in Europe is fucking terrible. Most are annoyed you even look at them.

I’m a pretty good tipper, but I draw the line at hotel room service. Some of these places have a big delivery charge plus a gratuity (usually well over 20%) already on the bill, then have the gall to leave the tip line blank.

Lyft provides a tip section on the app- from your credit card on file. The driver doesn’t know what they were tipped until the next day (well after they rated you), and even then they don’t know who tipped what (unless they took only one ride that whole shift).

When you’re stuck with the Wednesday afternoon shift because that’s what fits with your life schedule, $3/hr plus tips doesn’t pay the bills. You could be an awesome server or bartender, but there’s not enough business coming through the door... Meanwhile, you’re busting your ass to get the place ready for dinner…

Modern POS systems and accounting/payroll software can handle it. Of course, you’re right... many owners have a barely functioning set of books.

I’m all for $15/hr or 20% of the server’s sales for the shift, whichever is greater. Service charge is included in the price, no tipping.

Not having to tip is huge. The biggest problem with tipping is the rating system. Allowing or expecting tipping will change it from a more or less honest evaluation of the service/behaviour to that guy tips poorly going to give him a 1. It messes up the whole system Uber’s quality is based on.

Actually a lot of waiters have said that.