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. In 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor updated tip pooling laws to include back-of-house staff in tip pooling. He paid them a paltry wage— between $12 and $27.50
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