Tips Are Owed, They're Not a Favor. Not Tipping is "a Crime, the Blood of which Calls out of the Ground for Vengeance". "Why Restaurants Are Eliminating Tipping", proclaims a news article headline. The claims include the ideas, that it promotes bad service, it's an obsolete concept, and is unnecessary because of the living wage movement.Restaurant owners are certainly entitled to their point of view, but they are probably poorly served by latching onto "living wage".