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In reply to the discussion: I'm tired of the Uber military worship [View all]Kaleva
(36,466 posts)And i imagine that even if they were paid a living wage, they'd still not report their tips. I'd have to look but i do think some restaurants eliminated tips and raised their prices and wages of their employees but abandoned it after a while because the employees wanted lower reported wages which they paid less tax on and the tax free tips.
"In recent years, there's been a no-tipping movement within the restaurant industry.
The idea has been to rectify a basic pay unfairness to even out the pay between tipped and untipped employees. Dishwashers and cooks at the back of the house don't earn as much money as waiters because they don't get tips.
So, do away with tipping, raise menu prices a little bit, and pay everyone a higher wage.
But that experiment has failed at some restaurants. Joe's Crab Shack, the first large U.S. chain to implement a no-tip model, announced this month that it is moving away from the experiment, which only lasted three months....
On what made him decide to switch back to tipping
Attrition. We were losing staff, servers mostly. Kitchen was of course happy and turnover was nonexistent. And senior staff in the front of the house were happy. We were continuing to hire young, new people, train them, and then they'd get the set of skills necessary, and they would generally give notice and move to other restaurants in our community who were still on a traditional tip economy."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/15/478096516/why-restaurants-are-ditching-the-switch-to-no-tipping