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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The expectation to tip will absolutely remain. Service will deteriorate (not because of servers, but because restaurants will start moving to self service) and your night out will be much more expensive. But 75% of voters support that tradeoff.[/quote]

Some restaurants will seek to distinguish themselves with excellent service (and prices will reflect the higher price of labor, but upside, you’ll know your excellent server is making decent money).

Some will move to self-serve model, but there will be price competition here. And your self-serve system has to make sense and work. Fast casual restaurants are already like this, so if you want to compete you need to either offer a better product/experience than chipotle OR be price competitive. That’s fine with me. I’m happy to pay more for good food even if I stand in line to get it. I’d also pay more for okay food if there’s a self-serve system that works really well and you create a mor enjoyable environment than a fast casual restaurant.

I will still tip for service, and I’ll still tip 20%, but restaurants will need to be transparent about any service charges because I probably won’t pay a 20% service charge AND a 20% tip. Restaurants are going to have to build service costs into menu prices, it’s what people want because otherwise it’s hard to guess how much it costs to eat somewhere.

There will be growing pains but the market will adjust.[/quote]

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