"tip creep" is a really great term for what's going on. Services that don't have tips encoded in wage law (like restaurants [mostly]) are either passing along

"tip creep" is a really great term for what's going on. Services that don't have tips encoded in wage law (like restaurants [mostly]) are either passing along large scale pricing errors, or begging for arbitrary, subjective price increases beyond what's needed to run the business. Neither of those should be met with a smile.