A move afoot to end tipping?

According to The New Republic, there's a move afoot in some significant East Coast restaurants to raise waiters' wages and ban tipping.

If so, that would would be quite a change.  It's apparently been tried once before, but waiters objected to it.

Interestingly, according to the article tipping originated in the United States as a means of paying freed blacks who had been slaves, and then found employment as waiters. low wages.