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Tipping
The tipped minimum wage has origins in slavery
by
Sabri Ben-Achour
and Erika Soderstrom
Sep 19, 2023
And that legacy means a worker can be paid as little as $2.13 an hour at the federal level.
A solution to the service worker shortage? Eliminate tipping, some experts say.
Jul 1, 2021
To promote equity and retain workers as the economy reopens, some restaurants are opting to forgo traditional gratuity models.
With tips down, some restaurants have raised wages for servers. Will it last?
Jul 13, 2020
“A lot of workers are saying no, I refuse to go back and put my health at risk and my family's health at risk for $2, $3 or $4 an hour.”
With holiday tipping, "people worry about doing it right"
Dec 23, 2019
Americans are more likely to tip people they interact with face-to-face than those that work more behind the scenes.
Servers, steer clear of that table! Millennials are the worst tippers, report says
by
Renata Sago
Jun 18, 2018
But the data doesn't paint the whole picture.
When the public weighs in on proposed regulation, does it matter?
Jan 22, 2018
The Department of Labor has a new rule it wants to get on the books that would change the way restaurants treat tips. It’s called the tip-pooling rule, and would let workers in the back of the house, like dishwashers and prep cooks, share the tips made by the servers in the front of the […]
Your restaurant tips may not go to your server under proposed rule change
Dec 6, 2017
The Department of Labor has proposed changes to Obama-era rules about tipping. The changes would let employers pool tip money from workers who earn at least minimum wage and share it with non-tipped workers or use it to “make capital improvements, lower prices, or hire additional workers.” The public comment period is remarkably short, with […]
For public good, not for profit.
The ugly history of tipping in America
by
Kai Ryssdal
Apr 22, 2016
Author Saru Jayaraman explains why your gratuity has become the wage for many tipped workers.
Why we tip more than we used to
by
Shea Huffman
Oct 8, 2014
Americans leave bigger tips than in the past and it could be all about appearance.
The tip jar gets a digital makeover
Jun 6, 2014
Technology is making us better tippers but not without an extra dose of awkwardness.