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

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Its founder, George Pullman, hired newly liberated Southern black men as porters and servers. 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.

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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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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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Now, its mission is linked more than ever to fine dining destination Blue Hill at Stone Barns and a famous chef’s vision for trickle-down change. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying. It was not a gentle pivot.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features Boston Market, Danu Partners, P.F. Chang’s, Wing Squad, Yumpingo, Restaurant Revolution Technologies, Waitbusters, Dairy Queen, Fish City Grill, The National Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation and Keilhauer. New CEO at Boston Market. The plan is here.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Depends how you count, I guess, but we have Alinea, which is the flagship, and we opened that in 2005. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. Nick Kokonas is an owner of both operations. Daniel Geneen: Nick Kokonas, thank you for coming on the show.

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German Restaurants Are Expanding: 57 Concepts You Should Know

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This vegetarian concept started out in 2005 in Berlin as a juice and smoothie bar. While Germany has long been considered a country offering many traditional dishes, there are now an increasing number of restaurants popping up that are bringing new flavours to the table. Eventually he remains with nothing, but he’s happier than ever.

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The Return of the American Rail Dining Car

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Changes at Amtrak may revive the beloved tradition of enjoying chicken cordon bleu and Moroccan beef with chickpea salad with fellow travelers In August 2005, I rode an Amtrak overnight train from Chicago to Schenectady, New York: the Lake Shore Limited. I spent the night seated at a table in the lounge car waiting for 6:30 a.m.

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