Originally Posted by violist

Yes, our restaurant portion sizes are generally too large. I see it as
an effort to retail more product to an unsuspecting audience which
has subsequently grown to expect the excess (hence the readily
availability of take-out containers in pretty much all restaurants).



It is a reflection of the antediluvian nature of some of our nation's attitudes
that my citation below is from the Women's Bureau of our government labor
department (and it may say something that there is such a bureau at all).

From U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau


The issue here is that employers can simply lie about their staff's tips.
And the system encourages the employees to lie about their tips as well.

Though the rationale of the system is to encourage better service by
encouraging tipping, there are some effects that were not intended
by whoever formulated the system.