The Wall Street Journal described this as Chicago eliminating the “tips-as-wage system,” which makes it sound like a ban on tipping. It’s a shame, because tipping has always been a scam that enables restaurants to suppress labor costs, which keeps menu prices down. Tipping emerged as a model for employing formerly enslaved Black workers without having to pay them a real wage, if anything at all. Instead, restaurants should pay a living wage (if the revenue does not cover the actual cost of labor, what kind of business is it? Despite today’s dire labor shortage, precious few restaurants seem willing to re-examine their employment model in order to address it.

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Persons: Corey Mintz, CNN — It’s, Jaime Hogge, Steve Hanke, Nick Kokonas, ” Kokonas, “, Tipping, North America wouldn’t, ” Organizations: Public Affairs, CNN, Twitter, Chicago Locations: Chicago, Toronto , Ontario, North America