Originally Posted by JayhawkCO

Just out of curiosity, I pose this question to the FT masses. If a local restaurant that you hadn't visited before advertised the fact that they didn't allow tipping and paid their staff a living wage, would you be more likely to visit the restaurant?

Or perhaps a better question. If there existed two franchises of the same restaurant, and one worked under the current "system" and one didn't allow tipping. At restaurant #1, a burger costs $10. At restaurant #2, a burger costs $13. Assuming everything else is the same (and they're the same distance from the house, yadda yadda yadda), would you prefer one restaurant over the other?

EDIT: Not trying to be snarky here either. I myself, as a server, think that tipping is stupid too. That said, if I don't make the same amount of money and the restaurant doesn't make the same amount of money, it'll never go away.

Chris