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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. Even since restaurants have gone back and forth between tipping and no-tipping. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. a month —and the rest was to be made on tips.