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I agree. Pay them a living wage, and eliminate the expected tipping. Of course, you can still tip if you like. But today it is obligatory, and that's just messed up.
Tipping has its roots in racism, you know. When the laws forbade wage discrimination, they managed to get lower minimum wages for service people. So if your server was white, you could tip a lot. If they were black, not so much. Back-door wage discrimination.
I know a few places locally that now say they pay their people well, so tipping is entirely optional. When our daughter worked in a sandwich shop, they didn't even have a tip jar or the option to add a tip when running your credit card. You had to request to tip before they rung it up.
