&gt; I&#x27;m not sure you quite understand the point of tipping in the first place<p>The point of tipping is to prevent the employer from having to pay a fair wage. Someone who works in such industries depend on tips for their livelihoods. Not performing at 100% resulting in a significant drop in earnings isn&#x27;t really fair.<p>Given the typical audience on here, a reasonable comparison would be for employers to be docking wages based on time spent not working. Given how many of us visit this site at work, that could be a substantial drop in wages.<p>Then again, you might be making so much money that it doesn&#x27;t impact you. Servers aren&#x27;t. They might just be having a bad day. Their mistakes on serving you will have less of an impact on your life than your not tipping them.<p>Most of them are human beings trying to <i>survive</i>. Most of them are not making enough to do more than that.