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. If a server or bartender makes federal or state minimum wage, then tips offer the opportunity to make 2-5 times this hourly wage.
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