Tipping should be outlawed

Elizabeth Gunnison Dunn offers six reasons why tipping, particularly at restaurants, should be eliminated.

The friendships I’ve formed with restaurant employees over the years have made me think seriously about why hospitality workers are singled out among America’s professionals to endure a pass-the-hat system of compensation. Why should a server’s pay depend upon the generosity — not to mention dubious arithmetic skills — of people like me?

(via @LonestarTacoNYC, who are starting back up at New Amsterdam Market this weekend)

• economics
• Elizabeth Gunnison Dunn
• restaurants
• tipping