I know how tipping is always brought up around here, so I think this book is of interest to some of you. The Itching Palm by Scott, William R is full of examples of laws being enacted that eventually didn’t pass or were ruled unconstitutional. Learn what people thought about tipping a hundred years ago. There were movements for and against tipping that affect us today. We missed the the great tipping wars and how damn cheap do you have to be to pass a law making it a crime to tip?
You don’t necessarily need to be cheap; you can be cynical too. You can look at it as an excuse for the employer to pay their employees less, and assume that he’s probably confiscating the tips on top of that.
Several decades ago in the Salt Lake area male coworkers admonished me for tipping, called it bribery.