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Amazingly enough, other industries survive. I just bought a bunch of stuff from a deli, and somehow they appear to stay in business without tips.

Tips are just a way for restaurants to displace the risk of paying labor during slack business periods.

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Supposedly tips are common for jobs which rich people didn't do such as cutting hair, taxi, restaurant service.

I know I often tip my butler.

I find that with my household servants a Christmas bonus of passing down our secondhand possessions on Boxing Day is sufficient.

This! No customers no tips, cost of running the restaurant without customers is less. If tips as a way of paying employees were ever outright banned I'm sure there are plenty of smaller restaurants that would have to close.

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