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

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Even since restaurants have gone back and forth between tipping and no-tipping. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. And Danny Meyer created the Hospitality Included service model, increasing menu prices to offset higher wages. Department of Labor updated tip pooling laws to include back-of-house staff in tip pooling.

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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. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. DG: And the normal price? NK: Normal price for Alinea is 350 bucks or so when you’re all in going there.