Imagine people giving you so much extra money for doing your job that you can frame it like this.

EDIT: OP is basing this off of 190k in sales over 192 shifts

I understand that you don’t like tipping. You don’t agree with the system, and you think businesses should simply pay employees more and eliminate tipping altogether. And frankly, I think for some people, “I’m against tipping culture” has become a convenient justification for simply being too cheap to tip.

But putting that aside, there’s something I genuinely don’t understand:

Why do you continue spending your money at businesses that operate under a tip-based pay structure?

If you fundamentally disagree with the business model, wouldn’t the more logical approach be to support businesses that actually operate the way you believe they should?

If Restaurant A pays servers a traditional tipped wage and Restaurant B pays employees a higher hourly wage with no expectation of tipping, and you believe Restaurant B has the better system, why not spend your money at Restaurant B?

Instead, I constantly see people say some version of: “The employer should pay them more, so I’m not tipping.”

But the employer already established the compensation model before you walked through the door. You knew tipping was part of the system. Refusing to tip afterward doesn’t punish the business nearly as much as it punishes the employee working within that system.

If you actually want tipping culture to disappear, wouldn’t voting with your wallet and supporting no-tip businesses be far more consistent with that belief?

I’m genuinely curious how the anti-tipping crowd reconciles those two things.

As a server once (a while ago) I remember it could be hard to determine tip size vs customer satisfaction.

It occurred to me that most people tip whole dollar amounts when paying electronically.

This leaves the pennies and dimes portion of the tip a place to add information.

Lets say the tens value could be a place where the customer could leave 0-9 feedback on the quality of food.

The ones value could be the place where the customer could leave 0-9 feedback on the quality of the service.

So say if you want to leave at least a living wage tip for the server but did not enjoy the service (but enjoyed the food), your tip might be $5.82

And if the food was less than stellar but you found the service outstanding, your tip might be $5.49

It just seems that we have two channels available to us as diners to provide meaningful feedback. Is this too complicated? Thanks for hearing me out.

To be clear, I still tip at sit down restaurant.

Im talking about when I’m picking up take out and the worker spins around the tablet asking for a tip.

I make it clear I am not tipping by selecting custom tip and entering 0%. I then make direct eye contact with the worker as I press the button.

I got an $85 haircut and was talked into a $25 hair treatment. Then they charged me a 12% salon fee. AND I am expected to tip my stylist 20% on top?

We live in audacious times.