#leaving tips

As the title says, this will be about why I don't believe in leaving tips. Really this all came up because I like to question things and I asked myself, "Why has 'tipping' become an expectancy?"

We'll use an example restaurant like Olive Garden. Let's say I went there for a nice dinner with my girlfriend and the end bill came up to something like $35. Why is it that I'm expected to leave a tip of say 15% of the total bill? How come it has become the responsibility of the customer to pay an additional fee upon what you already paid for the meal? In my mind a franchise like Olive Garden should be capable of paying their employees, not rely on the customers.

Now I get people don't like when I say that I don't believe in 'tipping.' But to me this is just laziness cheapness on behalf of the restaurant owner.

In my mind, a business that is not capable of sufficiently paying their employees shouldn't be in business at all.

On a side-note regarding waiters/waitresses not making any money. That is their concern honestly, not mine. It sounds cold but face-it, if we're 'tipping' these people for a 'service' type job. Then shouldn't we be 'tipping' every job? Well no because that would be unrealistic, we don't have to tip every 'service' job though because those employers actually pay hourly wages.

Now to the waiters/waitresses. I don't dislike you, it's your terrible employer that I can't stand for completely ripping you off. The problem I see with 'tipping' is that on a fairly slow night with few customers, what do waiters/waitresses get paid? If they only get a fraction of a REAL hourly wage then what exactly do they make at the end of the day?