Seconded. It's a practice that really only exists to pit employees against customers for wages, rather than taking it to their employers who are actually responsible for paying them.

For a while we had many hospitality places with POS units that would ask for tips. The trend seems to have died off so hopefully that shows customers won't accept it.

Also pretty sure no one here is pushing for tipping, OP even said they were against it in the body of the post. Just that Lemmy users don't get to decide much 😆