Self pay for jackpots seems like a no brainer.

You hit a hand-pay type in your pin and keep playing. This has been out for awhile now but why are so few casinos offering this option?

It saves the casino money for labor costs, especially now when there is a labor shortage. It keeps the machines in action longer instead of being shut down for 20 plus minutes.

No more tipping for hand pays. Should make everyone happy. Players don’t have to worry about tipping or tip shaming. Money that would go to employees in form of tip is cycled back through machine instead and exposed to house edge should make the casino happy.

Would encourage bigger bets. Sometimes I avoid high bets I would otherwise make at a casino with self pay as I don’t want to wait 20 minutes for a $1200 handpay and $20 tip on a $50 slot bet.

So why isn’t everybody doing this now?

I suspect that eventually everybody will in the longterm, 5 to 10 years out or more. But why have casinos been so slow to adopt this?