Tipping

A provision to the spending bill would clarify the Labor Department’s tip-pooling rule.

The power imbalance and subjective nature of tipping culture forces servers to endure behavior that wouldn’t be tolerated in other workplaces.

The legally dubious scheme takes 3 percent of the bill, regardless the gratuity.

Finally, some good news!

It involves a Yelp-style rating system tied to a blockchain and cryptocurrency.

A mom is protesting it because her daughter paid 90 extra cents.

It would let owners distribute gratuities however they see fit.

Danny Meyer’s decision to eliminate tips at his restaurants was called revolutionary. Behind the scenes, the rollout was rockier than anyone expected.

A 20 percent administrative fee will be added to the $258 bill.

“They cared about us and our safety.”

The popular restaurant is the latest, and highest-profile, to adopt the owners’ Hospitality Included program.

“The odds of being struck by lightning are probably better than this.”

Customers "spoke very loudly" and "voted with their feet."

The owner of several restaurants had been testing out a gratuity-free system, but says it didn't work out as well as he'd hoped.

“The industry has been the same way for so long ... Of course, it's been weirdly emotional and frustrating and anxiety-causing.”

He argues a sticker in windows across town "would simplify things tremendously."

Where to eat if you want to go all service-included, all the time.

He's changing his policy at Fedora to start.

All of his restaurants will be gratuity-free by the end of next year.

They claim they should have been paid more per hour.