Should (Advice / Expectation)
7 related grammar points that express the same core idea - compared below so you can tell which one to reach for.
Members
たらいい / たらいかがですか
Suggesting a course of action to a customer, a guest, or someone senior.
~たら いかがですか vs ~たらいい: Use たらいかがですか. It is the polite suggestion form and keeps the decision visibly theirs. たらいい, といい and ばいい are all casual and near-interchangeable with each other, but any of them to a superior reads as telling them what to do.
ことだ / はずだ
Saying something 'should' be so: is it advice, or a prediction?
~はずだ vs ~ことだ: はずだ is expectation from reasoning ('it should be true, given what I know'), and says nothing about what anyone ought to do. ことだ is direct advice ('what you should do is...'). English 'should' covers both, which is exactly why they get swapped.