Your 'solution' is to tip well which is just giving in to the fucked up american system and supporting companies that exploit their staff.
I tip but only as a thank you if the service was good. It's up to the restaurant to calculate those costs into their pricing.
No, @aeharding@lemmy.world the dev is pretty active? Only reason why things slowed down with most apps is because devs are testing or waiting for the Lemmy 0.19 release.