I'm suggesting employers pay their employees. This isn't a radical concept and works just fine everywhere else. They already do this everywhere other than restaurants. If they aren't paying employees enough, that's a problem. You don't solve that problem by adding an optional tax on customers that is kinda-sorta-not totally required. All that does is ensure that in a certain percentage of cases employees get paid zero percent of the invisible tax. I'm just saying make the tax visible and required and stop this weird dance we do in america.

Tipping should be illegal. Tipping is necessary currently most places. Both can be true.