No tipping is the norm in Japan. Even at family Denny’s type restaurants. Yeah, the food is a bit more expensive (as is everything else), but calculated as a percentage of take-home pay or hours of labor, it is remarkably similar in price.
works fine...
until the servers realize they can slack and get the same pay...
Because multiplying a number by 0.15 or 0.20 will just destroy the serene feeling I have after a contemplative meal.
On the other hand the heartburn I had from dropping $100 on dinner for one person would probably kill any chance I had on contemplation.
They will probably spend more now that tipping isn’t an issue. That’s 20% food bill budget.
I wouldn’t pay anything close to $100 for *anything* on *any* menu in *any* restaurant...even if I was worth a billion dollars.I once paid about $40 for a piece of steak at a restaurant (Ruth Chris?) and it was excellent.But Outback make a sirloin almost as good for less than half that.
I would argue that without the tip system there is no direct incentive for good or great service.
The waiter can make the meal and environment spectacular or the evening can be an epic fail.
Without the tipping system they get no direct feedback as to what their customers expect.
Our beautiful blonde 19 year old granddaughter works Fri, Sat, and Sun for a total of about 22 hours at a Houston area Sports Bar/Restaurant. She makes between $400-$500 a weekend while going to college fulltime during the week.
That works out to be around $20/hour. If she lost her tips she’d probably go somewhere else. I doubt any place is going to pay her $20/hour with no tips.