Tips are a way for an owner to scam personnel out of decent salary. There is literally 0 reasons to have it these days. Every issue they were designed to solve

Tips are a way for an owner to scam personnel out of decent salary. There is literally 0 reasons to have it these days. Every issue they were designed to solve either disappeared, easily solvable, or when solved via tipping leads to more significant problems. Low income? Pay workers more. No one thinks it's a good idea to start tipping, say, teachers. Can't afford higher salary? Split X% of profits among (smaller) staff. No one sells furniture for 10% less, halving cashier salary and making tips a requirement. Suffering of preferential treatment of tippers (like giving out seats for money)? Fine or fire offending personnel. Why what effectively a bribe considered okay in these cases? But no, somehow US culture still decides it's better to move that pressure and responsibility onto the customer provoking conflicts.