The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future
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OCTOBER 26, 2022
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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