Personal Finance Canada

Tipping or not tipping isn't going to change the straight-up robbery done to you in the states with your $2~5 hourly minimum wages... customers are effectively subsidizing the employer because they only have to pay the $7 federal minimum wage if they don't get tips.

In other words the first $5 an hour in tips goes to the owner, the server doesn't see it at all. Y'all mericans should abolish the concept of tipped minimum wage. Get to your legislators on that. It's gone everywhere in Canada (sauf que la province de Québec, they were too drunk to follow suit)