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It's weird how so many people here are against tipping, yet I've never been to a restaurant in Calgary where tips aren't allowed because the waitstaff is already getting paid fairly.

There are two conclusions one can take from this:

1) If you owned your own restaurant, you'd be the first to put your principles into practice, and history would be changed thenceforth, as an avalanche of customers would descend upon your trend-setting establishment.

2) You actually don't like tipping because you are cheap, and are making up post-facto reasons so as not to appear so.

There might actually be a couple #1s in this thread. We can only hope you decide the life of the restauranteur is for you.

Edit - there are plenty of #2s that already own bars and restaurants, they like the idea of tipping for other people as it saves them money on paying their staff. The hypocrisy of this, of course, is irrelevant to them.