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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. In most other parts of the world, tips are not expected—and in some cases, it's considered rude to tip.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Nick Kokonas explains his businesses’ pivots on Eater’s Digest As restaurants around the country furlough or lay off their workers or permanently close, Chicago’s high-end tasting menu destination Alinea is bringing in record revenue and has brought back its staff. Aviary is a high end lounge, and Next is like a morphing restaurant.

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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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La Morada, an undocumented immigrant-run restaurant in the Bronx, New York, also accuses the José Andrés-founded organization of having “ties to gentrifying forces” In April, World Central Kitchen, founded by chef José Andrés, announced Chefs for America , a program to provide 1 million free meals to those experiencing food insecurity.