to create a law that would prohibit any restaurant or eatery to automatically add a mandatory gratuity.

A petition to protect the righs of the common american to to refuse to pay a Tip that is not warranted, Restaurants use mandatory tiping as a punsihment to customers and to avoid paying minimum wage, When a patron receives bad service then no tip is warranted. Tips according to the IRS are required to be voluntary. In some cases restaurants have locked doors and illegally detained customers for refusing to pay tips, Police have been called many times and most charges are dropped. This amounts to a private company creating their own TAX on their patrons, No person should be made to pay for service they did not receive, And getting bad service is in escence not receiving service, and does not warrant a mandatory gratuity, PLEASE make mandatory gratuity charges illegal.