After failing to tip Outback server on $735 order, mega church finally pays up

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25. In this situation

she should have had her wages bumped up to that of one of the non-tipped employees, since there were efficiencies reaped by the employer in fulfilling this large order. No doubt, it was ordered well in advance, which gave them some certainty of income for that day, and there were minimal costs in cleanup, etc., not to mention the efficiency of only one financial transaction rather than many such transactions.

It's like having a commission-based salesperson doing office work. If everybody's gotta do their fair share (like real estate agents staffing the office on rotating weekends) then that's one thing, but if you pull a person whose pay depends on their ability to do their job well off of that job, and on to another that may pay less than minimum wage, that's wage theft.

I don't know how we switch off the tip system, so many depend on it, because their superior abilities get properly compensated more often than not, and if we would not like the results of leaving that system. You'd essentially have to outlaw tips to get away from tipping, because not a lot of people would want to look like a jerk for not tipping in a situation that normally has called for tipping.