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

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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. For front-of-house staff, tipping provides an incentive to provide excellent service and then be rewarded for this hard work. And changes are on the horizon.

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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. We tried to communicate all of that as effectively as possible, and things you’re supposed to do.