Yeah... It doesn't make sense, it's either a fee, or it's as someone else here pointed out a bribe so they might go faster take better care of your food or take your order at all. But nothing ensures that if you pay first ..
Tbh I feel like tipping in general should end already... they only thing it makes is desperate people trying to get by instead of getting a proper income to begin with.
After demo of games on the iPhone last presentation... Showing ray tracing and game ports and stuff like that I suspected it wouldn't be far fetched... they might attempt to take more of that market.
My idea was more in a console I mean they seem to have good enough hardware already, they can piggyback on the apple TV stuff for the device and of course their existing store... Oh and they have their own VR/AR glasses coming let's not forget...
Oh nice for sharing the info.