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Our Wage Models are Broken

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The institution of tipping and the existence of the sub-minimum wage is heavily rooted in slavery , and has led to decades of underpaying a workforce that is majority black, brown, and female. In other words, tips can legally be split between kitchen and waitstaff. This isn’t an easy conversation to have.

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

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When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. A guest's tip subsidizes wages for most of America's restaurant workers. In most other parts of the world, tips are not expected—and in some cases, it's considered rude to tip. History of Tipping: How did gratuity become integral to our restaurant culture?

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[Updated for 2023] The State-by-State Guide To Tip Pooling Laws

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But one can't deny that tips make up a majority of restaurant workers' take-home pay. One of those ways is tip pooling, where all tips are collected into one “pool” and re-distributed back to employees. One of those ways is tip pooling, where all tips are collected into one “pool” and re-distributed back to employees.

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The Story Behind the José Andrés Nonprofit Currently Mobilized to Feed Gaza

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He said, ‘Hey, I want to start my own organization called World Central Kitchen, tipping my hat to DC Central Kitchen. The most important is not to cook, but food distribution,” Andrés told CNN’s Anderson Cooper after Hurricane Dorian. Andrés approached DC Central Kitchen with his idea for a new nonprofit. “He

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The Story Behind the José Andrés Nonprofit

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Over the next several days, World Central Kitchen volunteers set up at food distribution locations on Maui and the Big Island, and within the first week of its arrival, the organization provided more than 16,000 meals to wildfire victims. Last week, World Central Kitchen arrived in Hawaii with food and supplies for first responders.

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Q1 2022 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

District Court Denies Restaurant Industry Request to Halt New Tip Credit Regulations : On February 22, 2022, a Texas district court denied an emergency motion for a preliminary injunction brought by the Restaurant Law Center and the Texas Restaurant Association. Proposition 12 was passed by California voters in 2018 as a ballot initiative.

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July/August 2021 Legal Update

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Versions of this bill were introduced in 2015 and 2018, but were unsuccessful. billion was available to be distributed, which funded less than half of the applications received. Ninth Circuit Affirms California’s Proposition 12 Pork Ban : On November 6, 2018, California voters passed Proposition 12. Litigation.

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