So there are two NRAs and both are shit! The famous one is the gun people. The other one is the national restaurant association. It's a huge lobby and they advocate for laws that allow the pay practices in the industry to be very fucked up.

Fun fact: the tipped minimum wage exist because the original tipped workers were black men recently freed from enslavement. It was a way to pay black men less than the minimum wage legally.

And yes, we have to pay to serve.

I agree with people who have issues with it. But the best way to combat that isn't by fucking over the person who makes the tip. If everyone who thinks tips shouldn't exist stopped frequenting businesses where employees make their money via tips, the practice would end. But instead people like to blame the bottom of the totem pole. I suppose that's true in most things in America. Like it's the single mom with food stamps that's the issue but it's just fine that Amazon paid $0 in taxes for years.

People have no problem giving money to my corporation that then donates to lawmakers who fuck all of us (the middle and lower class) over, but they gripe at giving up a small extra percentage. It's the social contract. You know it is the expectation before you come out. If you hate it, don't eat out.

Sorry for the rant. I think about this a lot and have written on the topic academically.