You can see a comment below where a bartender is saying that they earn much more from tips than they would ever get paid with wages. This is a pretty common sen

You can see a comment below where a bartender is saying that they earn much more from tips than they would ever get paid with wages. This is a pretty common sentiment from waiters when a place says it's going to give up tipping. So that money is going to go somewhere. Some to the owners, some to the consumers, some to the people in the back. Probably also some to people who wait tables/bartend and make little (this seems to be a situation where people who know how to work the system make a lot while others stumble). It would also remove a fairly large mental burden on consumers. This is why I find it odd that people get mad when the occasional customer gives a low or no tip. That's the system, and you're saying you prefer this system because it overall makes you much more money than the alternative, at the cost to consumers and others.