The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future
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OCTOBER 26, 2022
When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. Its founder, George Pullman, hired newly liberated Southern black men as porters and servers. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. And Danny Meyer created the Hospitality Included service model, increasing menu prices to offset higher wages.
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