End of tipping?

[*michaelsean*]

(10-25-2015, 02:11 PM)fredtoast Wrote: To me it sounds like a way to turn the wait staff more into salesmen who will try to the customers to buy the highest priced items.

In law school I worked in the original Ruby Tuesdays (It was more of a bar than a restaurant and it was in the middle of "the strip" on UT campus.)  Too many times I saw customers get mad at the wait staff for problems that were actually caused by slows cooks or bartenders.  And there are always times when you will get stiffed by broke college students or old people who still think a dollar is a decent tip.  It isn't fair for restaurants to get by on paying the wait staff peanuts.  It was only $2.01 an hour when I did it, but they claimed taxes based on the tips you should have gotten on your recorded sales.  The weakly paycheck was so small it was meaningless.

I worked at Montgomery Inn a long time ago, and sometimes the wait  staffs paycheck wouldn't even cover the taxes owed on their tips.