GB
Chief Eating Officer
OK now we are getting into semantics. If you don't like the word "plan" then substitute the word "idea" or "system".
Like you said, they are TNT because their society accepts it and abides by it. You just proved why the tipping system does not work here. Society does not accept and abide by it. How many people have heard stories of waitstaff getting stiffed on their tips? How many times have you heard that certain sections of the population are not good tippers? This is society not accepting nor abiding by the tipping system.
If something like this was implemented in this country then people would have no choice to accept it it that is what every single restaurant was doing. It would then become just as intertwined in out culture as in other countries. To say that it wont work here because we don't already do it that way is akin to saying that we can never make any changes in this country because...well because it isn't already that way.
Again, I am just sort of playing devils advocate here as I do not see this change ever happening for the same reasons that I don't think we will ever use the metric system, but I do give the people of this country a lot of credit when I say that if we did make this change across the board, people would learn to accept it and we would get along just as all the other countries who use this way of paying staff at restaurants.
Like you said, they are TNT because their society accepts it and abides by it. You just proved why the tipping system does not work here. Society does not accept and abide by it. How many people have heard stories of waitstaff getting stiffed on their tips? How many times have you heard that certain sections of the population are not good tippers? This is society not accepting nor abiding by the tipping system.
If something like this was implemented in this country then people would have no choice to accept it it that is what every single restaurant was doing. It would then become just as intertwined in out culture as in other countries. To say that it wont work here because we don't already do it that way is akin to saying that we can never make any changes in this country because...well because it isn't already that way.
Again, I am just sort of playing devils advocate here as I do not see this change ever happening for the same reasons that I don't think we will ever use the metric system, but I do give the people of this country a lot of credit when I say that if we did make this change across the board, people would learn to accept it and we would get along just as all the other countries who use this way of paying staff at restaurants.