[Puddleglum]

I've always been confused by the restaurant industry. Why don't restaurants pay wait staff a decent salary to begin with, so that tipping is a bonus?

If you're going to require tipping, then add it to the cost of doing business as reflected in the menu and get rid of the charade all together.

[jpsb]

I have offered to do that, put up a not tipping allowed sign raise the drink prices to include a 10% tip. The girls (the girls run the bar, I just own it) won't hear of it. I still think it is a good idea, but it is a hard sell to girls that know how to work a bar.

One problem they have, we are a small neigborhood bar, is that after a while all the regulars get to know all the girls and think of them as friends not bartenders and tips slow down. But on the bright side new poeple come in all the time and they tend to tip good.