I hate tipping. It was so nice in Japan when you paid the actual sticker price and that price was less than in the USA for better food and no tipping. Restaurants are so much more expensive in the USA because you have to add 25% to the cost every time, then an additional ~10% for sales tax. Even take out you are expected to tip at least 10% now, and even when the service is bad, 15% is the minimum for dine-in. You don't tip on fast food, and they know it, so now fast food costs as much as a sit down place minus tip. Then on top of that, many restaurants steal the tip, make the server share with other worse servers, or share with the back of the house.
On the upside, I guess they can under report cash tips and not have to pay our insane taxes on them.