I’m very happy to see a restaurant opening with no tipping. Good luck to him.
I worked as waitress until I was 65. I never went to work to make tips; I went work to serve breakfast to hotel guests with pleasure. Tipping is not a right, it is a privilege. Severs now think they are entitled to tips — very wrong. If they greet their guest with a warm smile and a nice greeting they will make tips. I find tipping does not make for good service; servers now think you should tip no matter what they do.
My son took me to a restaurant for Mother’s Day and the server never offered us desert, dumped the bill on the table and took a long time to come back to get paid. Bad news. I see wait persons putting their fingers around the top of the cup and glasses, which is most unsanitary. I know one popular spot that is taking the tips to pay the bills and management is sharing the tips.
It is time for no tipping for every one including, hair dressers, cabbies or anywhere there is a tipping jar.
Servers getting $20-$24 an hour are also building up their Canada Pension Plan, which does not happen with tips. This is a very smart move, a no-tipping restaurant. They’ll also have to pay income tax on tips.
This fellow will have no trouble getting very good wait persons, as they will get paid even on slow days when there are few customers.
Elaine Cherry, Vancouver
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