No. Tips for waiters is an incentive to provide good service. Without tips they make very little. Are you talking without the context of the linked article? Be

No. Tips for waiters is an incentive to provide good service. Without tips they make very little. Are you talking without the context of the linked article? Because the idea behind the linked article is that a service fee is pooled and distributed among all staff (though still favouring servers, which is a nod to the past more than any rational evaluation of scope of importance). The linked article is that the servers still made a considerable amount more than their base pay. And no, servers aren't by any measure the most important. I would dare say they are the least important in the whole venture.