Yes, tipping culture sucks. I get it! Restaurants charge a lot for food and service. Servers should be payed a LIVING wage (not minimum wage) and tips should be optional and not expected. But screwing over a server by not paying them tips is not gonna achieve that goal, the best case scenario is that they will quit and look for a job that could very well pay them less, and the worst case scenario is that they won't make rent that month or be able to buy food for themselves. Keep in mind many servers make a base pay per hour (not including tips) that is so low, that all of it goes towards taxes.
Until servers are payed an hourly LIVING wage, it doesn't matter. They need the tips to survive. I'm sorry to break it to some of the people on this sub, but $15 an hour is not a living wage. It should be around 25-45 dollars an hour depending on what area you live in. Or we could just abolish the whole system altogether and have food, water, shelter, and clothing be a human right
If you have a personal gripe with how much you pay for restaurant food, don't eat at a restaurant. Go get fast food or takeout. If you have the time to sit in a restaurant, and the money to pay for a food there (not including service fees), then you have the time and money to buy and cook food yourself.
Encouraging people to quit their jobs works on a case by case basis – I don't want anyone here to end up in a position where they don't have the money needed to survive. But surely shorting someone out of their money after their labor is not the right way to encourage them to quit their job, cmon