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

7 Shifts

Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. For front-of-house staff, tipping provides an incentive to provide excellent service and then be rewarded for this hard work. Even since restaurants have gone back and forth between tipping and no-tipping. Union Square Hospitality Group later abandoned the system in 2020.

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How Andolini’s Uses 7shifts To Help Schedule With Empathy: Case Study

7 Shifts

Mike Bausch and his brother Jim opened their first location, Andolini's Pizzeria , in 2005, and have since expanded the business to include multiple locations of Andolini's as well as other restaurant concepts including pizzerias, slice shops, food trucks, and fine dining restaurants. Andolini's solves this with 7shifts announcement tools.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

EATER

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? Clair Supper Club.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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A formally trained creative writer — she earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in Chicago in 2005 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2022 — Regan used menus to corral the details of a chaotic early life into submission before she published an actual book.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

They sought an all in one software solution that could meet the day-to-day front of house management needs as well as could offer their customers the ability to order online. With so much going on at so many locations the owners were looking for an efficient solution that could be monitored across the board. Morial Convention Center.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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Farm director Jack Algiere shows onion seedlings to a group of kids visiting Stone Barns in May 2005. Workers plant crops in view of the main complex at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in 2005. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images.