It's not good for anyone. It's bad for customers, who feel squeezed at every little transaction. It's bad for employees, whose income depends on customers giving into that squeeze.

An acquaintance of mine runs a coffee shop in Brooklyn. She pays her staff a higher hourly wage, doesn't accept tips, and prices things accordingly. It's a much better system, and it should be the law

Bribe dictionary definition:

> persuade (someone) to act in one's favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement

That's not it.

It's worse than a legalized bribe.

It makes you complicit in a system of exploitation where owners pay workers below what the worker needs to survive, and if you -the customer!- don't make up the shortfall you're responsible of the immiseration of the worker.