We should just make tipping illegal and pay people a living wage and charge what things cost. This also has the secondary effect of tipping or giving gratuity to elected and appointed officials illegal to. It used to be called a bribe but if you do it shirt the favor it’s a legal gratuity. If it weren’t for most of the people here I’d really hate it here.

Yeah… they tried something similar here in MA, and every single service person I talked to about it, at every level, from dishwasher to chef to server to maitre’d to manager to owner was opposed to it. It was a tortuously and deceptively constructed piece of legislature that “guaranteed” a thing that was already actually guaranteed. It did nothing helpful, and it just increased bureaucracy and put another layer in the wages equation unnecessarily. We voted it down, thankfully.