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

7 Shifts

When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. Its founder, George Pullman, hired newly liberated Southern black men as porters and servers. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. Hourly wage doesn't always reflect performance, but tips can account for this. a month —and the rest was to be made on tips.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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Farm director Jack Algiere shows onion seedlings to a group of kids visiting Stone Barns in May 2005. Workers plant crops in view of the main complex at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in 2005. A public call to accountability hadn’t been the plan. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images. The Stone Barns 2.0