Restaurants ditching no tipping
By NPR
In recent years, there’s been a no-tipping movement within the restaurant industry.
The idea has been to rectify a basic pay unfairness to even out the pay between tipped and untipped employees. Dishwashers and cooks at the back of the house don’t earn as much money as waiters because they don’t get tips.
So, do away with tipping, raise menu prices a little bit, and pay everyone a higher wage.
But that experiment has failed at some restaurants. Joe’s Crab Shack, the first large U.S. chain to implement a no-tip model, announced this month that it is moving away from the experiment, which only lasted three months.