Nellie Paris > wrote:

>Why should often-ignorant customers get to choose how much a server is
>paid for each transaction? I don't get to choose the pay of the Wawa
>clerks who rings up my coffee if I don't feel she smiled enough at me.
>Food servers are different than salespeople who work on commission,
>and they are not independent contractors who get to choose how to run
>their stations. They should be compensated fairly.

Restaurants and waitstaff are free to implement service-charge
based systems, so please don't blame the diners.

Steve