An Italian holiday may be a priceless experience for those who have enjoyed all this country has to offer. But the summer of 2023 will go down as one of the priciest in history after a slew of price gouging scandals at cafes and restaurants that have affected foreign tourists and Italians alike.
I think he’s primarily talking about states where tips can make up part lf the minimum wage instead of it just being the baseline with tips on top.
Also, I’m pretty sure his first * is him talking about his country, not America.
Realistically if we removed tipping in America restaurants would be forced to raise wages to get anyone to work there. It would be a rough transition though.
My prediction is restaurants would raise prices but still keep most of it by paying the bare minimum. Then, adults would be priced out of the industry and it would be another shitty job that nobody wants to do. Like fast food. I’m sure it’d be easy enough for our local govs to keep tweaking child labor laws so we’ll fill them up with teenagers that don’t know they shouldn’t have to take that abuse or work that hard for minimum wage.