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I love when they pretend to take the side of the worker by pointing out that it's the restaurant who is screwing their servers by underpaying them and making them rely on tips, which is of course 100% true but you're still eating at the restaurant.
I don't like tipping culture either, so I just... don't eat at restaurants. I actually don't need food slaves to serve me.
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Is there any political group working specifically against tipping?
Questioning how much not eating somewhere actually moves the needle at all. If a restaurant goes out of business, it's not necessarily clear that it's because patrons opposed tipping culture. So for that reason, it seems that anti-tipping progress has to come from labor itself, by refusing to work for tips. But I also recognize that that's not possible for many people barely scraping by.