I think it depends on location. It would be a bizarre approach in Scandinavia because the consensus here is that companies must pay their employees a decent ba

I think it depends on location. It would be a bizarre approach in Scandinavia because the consensus here is that companies must pay their employees a decent baseline salary -- which unions negotiate across the whole sector -- so there's no expectation of a tip by default. But for much of the rest of the world, it's not a given that working conditions are as good.