Cuz no other country has figured out how to pay their servers living wages and still maintain profitable restaurants.
Japan, Brazil, Austrialia, and most of Europe have no restaurants because they require businesses to actually pay their servers and not rely on the good will of customers...
Use some ****ing common sense
Americans for whatever reason feel like they need to reinvent the wheel. As if every major issue has only reared their ugly heada in the United States now while other countries still have yet to deal with them.
In reality, most of the other industrialized countries look at us as Neanderthals.
Remember Stockton 2 Malone? He was a mod on the original board before it crashed. I remember talking to him about health care and min wage. Australia modernized and resolved these issues decades ago. Hilarious because, when anyone suggests we adopt a system for any major issue that is being worked successfully in another similar country, the talking heads here scream apocalypse.
Again, if tips are what's preventing restaurant owners from jacking up prices or risk downsizing significantly, then why are so many other countries still surviving without the tipping system?
Again, I think this is more about perpetuating an asinine American system than actual analysis in economics.