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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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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. We don’t distribute all of our money. DG: And the normal price? NK: Normal price for Alinea is 350 bucks or so when you’re all in going there. In 2010, we opened Next, and The Aviary. Clair Supper Club.

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A Restaurant Ended Its Relationship With World Central Kitchen Over Its Dealings With ICE. It?s Complicated.

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The nonprofit organization, which is known for feeding people in need following natural disasters, would partner with over 1,000 restaurants and subsidize a pre-set number of $10 meals, which WCK would help distribute in various U.S. neighborhoods. I became friends with them,” he said. “We million meals in Puerto Rico.”