IF a restaurant is legitimately requesting gratuities from customers, then they are exempt from the minimum wage, and they are underpaying their workers, in anticipation of the tips they're supposed to earn.

If you're not tipping at these places, you're hurting those workers who are definitely not making minimum wage.

You tip at fast food restaurants?

In OP's defense; Chipotle, Panera & Subway all ask for tips. I personally don't tip them.

I’ve never seen a chipotle ask for tip.

It asks if you order via the app. The line workers don't know if you tipped, however.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Chipotle/comments/10pmu2t/do_line_w...

I'm not alone in being asked to tip there: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/restaurant-tipping-surve...

Why?

I don't believe it in.