Wow, what a great argument!
Just don’t eat out, with no customers around the money to pay these poor workers’ salaries will certainly appear out of thin air.
Don’t blame the OP for doing what most of the civilized world outside of USA does, which is paying the exact amount on the receipt.
It’s not, corporations’ bad faith interpretation of the law doesn’t make it legal.
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-pay-for-privacy-model-is-illegal-says-eu/