With regard to fixing tip culture, I think the solution is obvious. Make it illegal for a server to accept a tip. It probably looks bad to enforce this against individual servers, so enforce it at the restaurant level. Any restaurant where a server accepts a tip can get sued or fined or shut down by regulators or something. Frame it, accurately I think, as cracking down on fraudulent pricing practices.
This seems like it goes way too far. What exactly are we punishing the server or restaurant for if a patron drops some bills on the table and walks out when no one is looking?
As I’m imagining this, it would not constitute accepting a tip unless the server or the restaurant keeps it. Ideally the server would notice before the customer was out the door and return the money to the customer. But surely that won’t always happen, especially in the transition. In that case, let the restaurant donate the money to a nonprofit.
With regard to fixing tip culture, I think the solution is obvious. Make it illegal for a server to accept a tip. It probably looks bad to enforce this against individual servers, so enforce it at the restaurant level. Any restaurant where a server accepts a tip can get sued or fined or shut down by regulators or something. Frame it, accurately I think, as cracking down on fraudulent pricing practices.
This seems like it goes way too far. What exactly are we punishing the server or restaurant for if a patron drops some bills on the table and walks out when no one is looking?
As I’m imagining this, it would not constitute accepting a tip unless the server or the restaurant keeps it. Ideally the server would notice before the customer was out the door and return the money to the customer. But surely that won’t always happen, especially in the transition. In that case, let the restaurant donate the money to a nonprofit.