Try not tipping and returning regularly to the same restaurant. Do you get a better outcome? If you’re a waiter, try negotiating a higher salary with your emplo

Try not tipping and returning regularly to the same restaurant. Do you get a better outcome? If you’re a waiter, try negotiating a higher salary with your employer in exchange for telling diners that they need not tip. How does your salary negotiation work out? You could try opening a restaurant, paying higher wages, and telling patrons they needn’t tip. It might work out for you. What I personally think will happen is that someone will notice that you charge approximately 15% more than your competition to cover your higher labour costs. In effect you’ll be just like those places that impose a mandatory “service charge” on meals. So someone will figure it out and write a blog post saying how much they hate mandatory service charges and you should let them decide whether to pay less than 15% if the service is terrible. And we’d be back to square one.