How do you know this? In other countries the front of the house staff do just fine without tipping. And how much of your tip goes to the food preparation staf

How do you know this? In other countries the front of the house staff do just fine without tipping. And how much of your tip goes to the food preparation staff? You're supposed to be sharing your tips with them: how much do you tip them? Tipping needs to be burned with fire. Tipping and its history is dripping in classism, racisim, corruption, and the perpetuation of poverty. It grotesquely unevenly distributes wealth among the front-and and back-end staff in a restaurant. It turns many common experiences: dining, cab-riding, having your house cleaned, even renting a hotel room, into exercises in guilt-tripping, price manipulation and misleading advertising, and mental calculation. It's also a slippery slope. The rate used to be 10%. Then it rose to 15%. Now it's 20%. Why? Because employers are taking advantage of tipping to justify refusing to pay their employees a living wage. If there's one simple thing that would improve the situation for many service workers, it'd be making tipping illegal.