tipless

In a tipless society, your entree would just cost more, and the server would get their hourly regardless.

> In a tipless society, your entree would just cost more I live in a tipless society.

This is an old article - Jay Porter's tipless restaurant, The Linkery, has since failed.

It's by no means ideal, but it works well enough and eventually, tipless restaurants will bowl everyone over with how much better they are and we'll just move in that direction.

In many 'tipless' cultures they will accept tips anyway.

So a tipless dining economy can certainly work.

The odds were in his favour (slightly) but not so much that we can say with any certainty that he or his tipless restaurants were the issue.

The article gives an interesting explanation for why, theoretically, a restaurant would choose to go with a service charge rather than a tip-based system, but doesn't contain many observations from the now-tipless restaurant.

> On the other hand, in a tipless restaurant, they aren't paid based on merit, so maybe they won't be as motivated to do a great job in the parts of their work that require concentration and diligence.

I found the series of articles, "Observations From A Tipless Restaurant" was a really interesting analysis.