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

Ask any longtime server about the worst part of the job and it is not the slow Tuesdays. It is the customer who knows your income depends on his mood. The tipping system hands every diner leverage over the person serving them, and study after study has found that tipped workers, disproportionately women, face higher rates of sexual harassment because enduring it is part of the paycheck. The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United has documented this dynamic for years. ROC United. A higher base wage does not end harassment, but it ends the economic hostage situation: a server who can afford to walk away from a table can afford to report the man at it. Nobody should have to smile through groping to make rent. Abolish the subminimum wage and take the customer's thumb off the scale.