Ban Tipping!

To start out, I would like to narrow this topic. Narrow: We should ban tipping in restaurants. I would now like to present my initial arguments. Argument 1: Restaurants should ban tipping because tipping actually harms the service of the workers. The reasoning is that although many believe that people tip more based upon service quality, they actually tip about the same regardless of service, based on their own personal habits. However, pooling the cash gotten from the automatic tip, like we stated in our plan, would actually increase the amount of money the servers got. Anybody who"s ever worked as a waiter or bartender knows you can boost your income at least two ways: by earning bigger tips (whatever it takes to do that), and by turning over your customers faster through speedy service, which means you'll get more customers and therefore more tips. Sure, there are flaws in this system. Tip-starved waiters, for instance, might rush customers and degrade their dining experience (which, incidentally, would degrade their tips, too). And on busy days some waiters could take more tables than they're able to handle, impacting service for everybody.R32;E- Jay Porter, the owner of a San Diego farm-to-table restaurant called The Linkery, actually had allowed tipping for the first two years of his restaurant's business. However, they later added in an 18% automatic tip. Their waiting service improved, their revenue went up, and the business and employees alike made more money. (http://qz.com...) This is important because one of the goals of tipping is to provide an incentive for the waiters to give better service, but in fact, it does exactly the opposite. Banning tipping will help both the servers and the business owners. Argument 2: Tipping should be banned because some people tip more than others do. By some families tipping more than others, wait staff receive a different amount of payment. At Panera, they stopped allowing customers to tip because they felt that the customers were tipping too much or too little for certain servers. This caused an imbalance in the overall amount of money they received because people went out of their boundaries. Something like this could cause employee and management issues. By banning tipping entirely, every member of that wait staff receives a small bonus that would "compensate" for the tips they might have received. This makes it so that people can't extravagantly (or meagerly) tip the wait staff and makes it just. In the end, it is a win-win situation.R32; Argument 3: Tipping should be banned in restaurants because tipping is subsidizing restaurants. This is because restaurants are relying on the customers to tip the waiters for them to make minimum wage. Michael Dunn, a Professor at Cornell University (no, not the guy who shot a black kid for having his music too loud), estimates that 40 billion dollars a year is given in tips in the United States. The federal "tip credit" allows restaurants to pay their employees as little as $2.13 per hour. By having the customers give tip it brings the waiters hourly pay to minimum wage. Basically, this makes the customers co-employers to the waiters and waitresses through their tipping. The impact of this is that the customers should not have to pay for the waiter or waitresses income because they are not the employers. Conclusion: Tipping should be banned because: 1. It harms the service of restaurant employees, affecting you and your meal. 2. Some people tip more than others not because of service quality, making unfair wages in restaurants. 3. Tipping is subsidizing restaurants. Good luck Con!