Stop. Please stop. The only people who like tips are the ones who receive them.

It’s a coming of age to all of us who did work for tips when we realize just how much more we made when that was the obligation.

I did not make as much money per hour as I made as a 16 year old until several years after people called me doctor.

As my European colleagues ask “why don’t you do it like us?” We do. Constantly. Well we try, but all the good people leave because they can make more money elsewhere.