Shortly before opening, Casa Bonita’s new owners Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to eliminate tipping and instead pay workers a flat wage of $30 per hour.
Now I could be wrong, but getting a an hourly wage as a restaurant worker is FAR better than relying on tips. I feel like either workers in this situation are too obsessed with tips or there’s huge context missing.
Tipping is a bad system for workers no matter how you cut it and the data shows this. Largely tips are completely disconnected from the actual performance of the waiter, and the biggest factor is simply the race and gender of the waiter in question. I have worked in restaurants and I know how good getting a generous tip can feel, so I understand why workers might preceive it to be in their best interest, but the data on this is really clear. Tipping is a holdover of jim crow that allows owners to offload the cost of paying wages onto both the customer and employee entirely and it should be abolished as a system.
Edit: Also for people reflexively saying "the workers want it and therefor it is good and you are reactionary if you don't support them!" That's called fucking tailism. Just because s group of workers want a thing doesn't necessarily make it good its called the working CLASS for a reason, it's not about individual interests or even the interests of a sub group its about the interests of us all.