[cballard]

> Why work for peanuts of a salary when you can make way more in tips?

This is why they won't pay servers minimum wage (i.e. Danny Meyer doesn't).

Europe doesn't have tipping and service is perfectly fine -actually, better in many cases, in my experience they bother you much less, and there's no aggressive pre-bussing because unless it gets to the point where the business fails, table turnover doesn't matter nearly as much to the employees.

[CM30]

I'm not sure where you're from, but Europe definitely has tipping. Over here in the UK, it's almost expected, sometimes even as an addition on the top of the 'service charge'. Heck, it's not even just restaurants, people over here also tend to give tips to hairdressers and beauty salon staff as well.