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. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. Customers denounce “tipping screens” on social media, saying that it's too much. He paid them a paltry wage— between $12 and $27.50 a month —and the rest was to be made on tips.
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