Tipping Culture Criticism

The idea of tipping was to incentivize better service and to justify businesses paying service workers poorly. So getting rid of tipping actually ends up just hurting service workers. Might as well raise prices, pay workers more, and get rid of tipping.

Tipping is just subsidizing the bad business model of these companies

Sounds like a good reason to eliminate tipping.

Just don't tip, you're contributing to the problem if you do

YupWhat people need to recognize is that this is yet another corporate tactic to distract from their abusive practices.Just like recycling plastics; instead of designing actually recyclable or biodegradeable products and actually implementing recycling, they sell unrecyclable crap, ship the waste off to China (until they refuse it), and try to make everyone feel personally guilty for their insufficient personal recycling practices.With tips, they make a business model of paying they peo

Why would you tip and pay a delivery fee? You are enabling the corporation to underpay employees

I thought that tipping is mainly to enable the restaurant owner to avoid paying their workers properly.

Can someone explain to me why we shouldn't all stop tipping tomorrow?

Tips are a way for an owner to scam personnel out of decent salary. There is literally 0 reasons to have it these days. Every issue they were designed to solve either disappeared, easily solvable, or when solved via tipping leads to more significant problems.Low income? Pay workers more. No one thinks it's a good idea to start tipping, say, teachers.Can't afford higher salary? Split X% of profits among (smaller) staff. No one sells furniture for 10% less, halving cashier salary a

Tipping isn’t going away, an entire industry of wage suppression and exploitation is based on it