I don’t know, you seemed to think I knew about Applebee’s earlier, I had to explain I’m in a different country in some way because you didn’t pick that up and assumed I was familiar with your local brands. You said “tip generously or stay home”, that was what I was responding to, I stand by my assessment that tipping generously seems counter productive, you can choose to make boycotts or lobby your government to make changes in your country but that’s none of my business (besides internationalist worker solidarity which can only go so far).

Well there’s not much danger of me walking in to an Applebee’s, that would involve long and expensive flight.

Well like I said, I’m not American so it’s not really my battle anyway. I’ve only heared about the broken tipping culture in the US, and it always surprises me that threads complaining about it are often still filled up with comments like “but make sure you still tip generously” when that sounds like the most counter-productive thing you can do to deal with the problem. That’s the extent of my observation.

In the short term it might, but ultimately the moral burden is on the employers, it shouldn’t be pushed on to the customers. Stop going to those businesses is fine as well but I think it would have the same effect.

How about not tipping? I’m not American so maybe I misunderstand something, but it seems to me the obvious way to get rid of tipping culture is for lots of people agree to not tip - then employers would be forced to increase wages. It’s voluntary isn’t it?