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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

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Even since restaurants have gone back and forth between tipping and no-tipping. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. Department of Labor updated tip pooling laws to include back-of-house staff in tip pooling. Alice Waters implemented a service charge at Chez Panisse as early as the 1980s. In 2018, the U.S.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Depends how you count, I guess, but we have Alinea, which is the flagship, and we opened that in 2005. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. Amanda Kludt: For people who don’t know, can you outline how many restaurants are in your group?