More Bay Area Restaurants Eliminate Tipping: Instead, Mandatory 20% ‘service fee’.

(San Francisco, CA) — If you’re eating at a restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area, you might not have to worry about tipping. More tipless restaurants are opening in the area and diners are instead charged an automatic 20-percent service fee. Owners of the Liholiho Yacht Club in San Francisco, the Morning Wood in San Mateo, Cyrus in Napa and Pomet in Oakland are among those that have replaced gratuity with an automatic fee to pay workers more equitably. Despite the growing trend of service charges, the change has been met with pushback and confusion from both servers and diners.