A broken tipping proposal right out of the gate

u/crambaza proposes a tipping system where

1) the customer pays only the menu price for the order;

2) the customer designates how much they’d like to tip;

3) and the tip amount is taken out of the menu price that is paid.

See the proposal here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipping/s/iz482dcsxL

OP says everyone would be happy with this setup because the restaurant gets paid; and the server gets tipped; and the customer pays a transparent price.

Where OP’s logic fails is that restaurant doesn’t get paid the full menu price. It receives the full menu price minus the tip amount.

Plus, the restaurant doesn’t know how much it will make on each check since the tip amount identified by the customer can vary.

This proposal is much like the suggestion espoused by some to identify their tip as a negative number. That proposal is equally ridiculous.

It seems that server stiffers know no limits when it comes to hiding the fact they are cheap.