I respect that restaurant is one of the hardest businesses to keep surviving but nearly every other country does it without tips so you can't really say it's "necessary" to not just pay your employees a fucking wage, and it's insane that at a national level the government just said "yup you don't have to pay your workers in a restaurant like you pay everybody else in every other job"
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@sun Yet another post-slavery compromise we can't shake
@feld is it, I've read it only goes back to about to post-ww2 but I don't know for sure
@sun didn't want to pay the freed blacks, so they were allowed to work for tips -- make the customers pay them instead
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