Updated 9-18-16
~ Prices will go up more than 20% . Trust me, they’ll have to. So customers will pay more at any place that’s even moderately popular.
~ Good servers at most places will make less money as the net wage hike will not cover the lost tips. The majority of servers I know are strongly against getting rid of tips.
~ Operators will lose as higher menu prices will decrease customer visits and spending. ~ Most sadly, another one of the rare person to person relationships left in our social life will vanish.
~ Based on my past as a tipped server in the past, and my years in many different aspects of the hospitality business, in concepts from low to high end, I think this is a mistake across the board.
~ Everyone will lose if we get rid of tipping.
Here’s a 9-18-16 update from the Chicago Tribune on how the no-tipping experiment is failing.
