But everyone keeps telling me it’s related to service. Why does the bad server get a cut of the good server’s tips? Doesn’t that defeat the whole point?
Because in the end, it’s not the good servers getting the best tips. It’s the most attractive person of the opposite sex and same race of the majority of the business’s primary customer base.
Depends on the restaurant / country I guess; I’m used to restaurants fully splitting the total sum of tips between employees.
But everyone keeps telling me it’s related to service. Why does the bad server get a cut of the good server’s tips? Doesn’t that defeat the whole point?
Because in the end, it’s not the good servers getting the best tips. It’s the most attractive person of the opposite sex and same race of the majority of the business’s primary customer base.
This is not doing much to convince me tipping is a positive thing to have in society.
Good. Because it shouldn’t.
Here’s a business owner that got rid of tips and why they did it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12195793/Seattle-ice-cream-shop-BANS-tips-amid-backlash-customers-fed-tipflation.html
https://www.mollymoon.com/tipfree