happy to pay higher prices...instead of tipping. Tipping still supports the system, and there's way too many horror stories of managers/owners stealing tips.
It's just a bad system.
Just raise prices. Stop adding fees, pushing tipping, etc.
It's just a bad system.
Just raise prices. Stop adding fees, pushing tipping, etc.
1) The kind of people who bitch about tipping actually just hate the expectation of it. They're the same people who bitch about the price of everything and how "no one wants to work" when there's a staffing shortage that inconveniences them. They want to keep things just the way they are so they can continue feeling rightously indignant for not tipping instead of admitting they just don't give a shit about labor.
2) Business owners love the system because it effectively means the customers who aren't jackasses subsidize the ones who are and they can pretend the cost of their product is lower than it actually is.
3) The US is a hellscape run by sociopaths that routinely and gleefully burns its people on the alter of mammon. Nearly everyone in a position to do anything about this situation is both 1 and 2.
I think that brush is too broad.