Comment by einpoklum

> and have the restaurant pay their people for their work.

For that, you need the restaurant employees to be organized in a strong, independent, non-corrupt union; or a highly-upstanding restaurant owner/manager.

The latter is sometimes the case, but often/usually - not.

So, former is rarely the case, I'm afraid, because working-class consciousness in many countries is lacking; and forming a union is hard; and restaurant staff have a lot of churn, so by the time you get the idea to do this, or have started work on it, you might be going elsewhere.

But regular restaurant clients taking owners to task about wages is definitely a thing to consider...