Let’s Ban Tips

Victoria Messina

5B

The Boston Globe Opinion (link)

The central claim of this article is that tipping is an old tradition that should be gotten rid of. In restaurants waiters and waitresses should be payed normal wages and tipping should be eliminated.  

When tipping is in the picture, workers do not work for the benefit of the restaurant or the costumers pleasure, but so that they can make money. Tipping also promotes discrimination of costumers, if you judge that someone has more money you are going to give them better service. Restaurants who have implemented the "no tips" way have actually done better when they paid workers the normal amount. 

I agree with the points that the author has, however I think that tipping is a large part of the way we run our restaurants. Tipping allows people who would normally be making $60-80 a night make about $200. I agree that people should stop speculating weather a person will leave a good tip or not but I think if someone wants the most tips they can get they will treat everyone the same in hopes to receive the most they can.