A staple of the whole system is tax avoidance. It feels good to have that cash free and clear. For quite some time restaurants have assessed the claim amount b

A staple of the whole system is tax avoidance. It feels good to have that cash free and clear. For quite some time restaurants have assessed the claim amount based on a percentage of the bills paid by cash taken from the tip average on charged payments. Basically, servers rarely have agency over how much they claim in tips. Only if they score far above average tips can they escape any meaningful taxes. Often they just feel like they are making out better because they didn't get assessed as much as they were tipped. People are not good at math. It's clear to me that tipping needs to go away and the restaurant industry needs to retract to a profitable number of participants. Like trucking and other low margin businesses, there is too much worker abuse because it's the only avenue to profit.