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So we will move to this model from NYT article and now have less lower skilled jobs available.  We will get worse service too.

"You scout your own table. place your own order, You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.

Runners will bring your order to the table, but there are no servers to wait on you here, or at the two other San Francisco locations that Souvla has added — or, increasingly, at other popular restaurants that have opened in the last two years: RT Rotisserie, which is roasting cauliflower a few blocks away; Barzotto, a bistro serving hand-rolled pasta in the Mission district; and Media Noche, a Cuban sandwich spot with eye-catching custom tilework."[/quote]

I believe the no tipping was tried in several cities on the west coast and it was an epic failure.  Restaurants ended up closing as customers would not pay the new prices for food.[/quote]

That's about to happen anyway.  Have you seen what prices are now?

Tipping just hides the cost.  Now is the perfect time for this because there's already going to be a reckoning over prices.[/quote]
High prices + 20% service charge + 10% DC tax = No thanks.

A few things that would help restaurants are: falling commercial rents, less greedy restaurant owners, and cutting taxes.[/quote]

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