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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. It's the expectation and an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a living. A guest's tip subsidizes wages for most of America's restaurant workers. It's a reality that only exists in North America—the United States and Canada. But tipping did not take off immediately in the U.S.

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

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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. They are also a model for how to treat their entire team.

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A Fool’s Choice

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Donovan’s first job at McCormack’s Margot Café is a far cry from her time at her first steady restaurant job at TradeWinds, a “22-­seat Italian cigar den housed in a double-­wide trailer on a dirt hillside corner” in Valparaiso, Florida. Lisa Donovan | Photo courtesy of Lisa Donovan. Monica Burton. ax” and “a straight?up

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Eater’s Guide to the Canadian Rockies

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Set in 9,000 miles of pristine parkland, the restaurants of the Canadian Rockies reflect abundant natural resources like wild elk, Saskatoon berries, and fresh trout The Canadian Rockies take everything up a notch. Over the course of 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Canada

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Like Mother, Like Daughter: Love of Cooking Transcends Generations

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Wanting to bring the colors and flavors of Mexico City to the Bay Area, Veronica acquired space to operate out of the La Cocina incubator kitchen in San Francisco's Mission District, launching El Huarache Loco in 2005. Since the age of 7, Dayana Salazar has aspired to be like her mom, Veronica. Just below that? Sound familiar? "Everything

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City Hope Provides Food, Support, and Normalcy for the Under-Housed and Homeless in San Francisco’s Tenderloin

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Take a step back from the front porch however, and you’ll note that the building is covered in art with beautiful and inspiring phrases like, ‘today was a good day’. City Hope was founded by Paul Trudeau in 2005 as a place for the Tenderloin’s under-housed and homeless to get together and share a meal and, more importantly, share the moment.

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Top Restaurants with Private Dining Rooms in Austin

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Fixe Southern House. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fixe Southern House (@fixesouthernhouse). Fixe Southern House serves traditional southern foods and has been highlighted in Fort Worth Magazine. Fixe Southern House is on 5th St near Republic Square in downtown Austin (take bus 20). Lamar Blvd.

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