Should tipping be abolished in favor of higher base wages for service workers?

I make $68,000 a year serving at a mid-range steakhouse, and no higher base wage proposal comes close to replacing that. The activists pushing tip abolition keep talking about the $2.13 wage as if anyone actually takes home $2.13 an hour; with tips I clear $30-plus most nights. When DC started phasing in Initiative 82, plenty of servers opposed it because they did the math. A flat $20 an hour is a pay cut for every good server in a busy restaurant, and the best of us will leave for sales or bartending gigs where performance still pays. You want to help struggling servers? Raise the tipped minimum, enforce wage theft laws, keep the credit. Do not rescue me into a $25,000 pay cut. One DC server wrote about living through the phase-in and reaching the same conclusion. The 51st.