[Eightball]

Okay a new fresh persepective.

Government, and customers have NO obligation to tip a waiter for their service. The whole principle behind tipping is voluntary. The risk behind a tip is that a waiter might get a substancial tip after serving a party, or may not get anything. The restaurant hedges its risk by charging a set price for its services to the customer (i.e. providing a prepared meal), which is delivered by the waiter who actually acts as a second business in the process. The only thing the government should do here is turn a blind eye to taxing the the waiter, and to make sure the restaurant owner isn't beating the shit out of the waiter after hours.. Some places in Europe add a SET Tip to the final bill (18 percent or something like that), and most people changed that since waiters didn't want to work in a place that only guaranteed them and 18% tip.

SO: to recap....

Government has NO obligation to enforce the business to pay the waiter a steady amount of money for services in comparison to the business' other staff.
The Business has NO obligation to pay the waiter a high wage due to the fact that the waiter is volunteering to take the risk of tips.
The customer has NO obligation to give anything above and beyond for a meal's cost as described on the bill (AKA the written invoice to cover costs of service and legal TAX)
and... the most important thing here that most of you forget.
The waiter has NO obligation to have to work in that shitty condition. He/she is free to fuck off and go do something else at any given time.

So to Suma Sumaria

If you're working as a waiter, and the work is too hard and the pay is too small... GO DO SOMETHING ELSE stupid. Construction workers don't do their job for 5.00 an hour. Doctors won't operate on people all year long for a guaranteed 15,000 salary. Why are you taking it up the perverbial ass then? If enough waiters walk out, the system will adopt new policy to get more waiters to come back to the waitering business. And if the business doesn't adapt, then no one gave a shit about your job or your tipping situation anyway. But don't worry, most people won't get up and get their own food I'm pretty sure you're safe.

So in Suma Suma Sumaria

Quit bitching, and feeling entitled to alot of tips. And go get me another fork.

(PS. I always tip very well, but not because I feel I have to.)