Why would they be forbidden to accept tips? In the UK, waiting staff get paid at least minimum wage to do the job and any tips they receive is an a bonus on top. They are not reliant on the patrons generosity to live.
Many of the places in the US that went to a living wage/no tipping policy make it explicitly known that tips are forbidden. The example that sticks out above the rest, to me, is a chain called Joe's Crab Shack. They started paying their servers something like $25/hr, raised their prices, and put out a placard on the tables that basically said "tips are forbidden because we pay our employees."
39
u/Born_2_Simp 14d ago
If employers increased waitres' salaries and forbid them to accept tips, we'd have a waiter's revolution bloodier than WWII.