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    The Salt
    Keith Harmon is part owner of three restaurants in Jamaica Plain, Mass. In 2015, he established revenue sharing by charging a 3 percent fee that goes straight to kitchen employees. Harmon helped persuade the owners of Mamaleh's Delicatessen and State Par
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    Restaurants Cook Up A New Way To Pay Kitchen Staff More: A Cut Of Sales

    Mar 31, 2017
    Revenue sharing is taking off in restaurants in cities like Boston and San Francisco. The model varies from place to place, but the idea is simple: funnel a percentage of sales to kitchen workers.
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    Parallels
    Restaurants stay open late into the night on Beijing's Dongzhimennei Street, including A Very Long Time Ago, which reintroduced the practice of tipping waitstaff last October.
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    Long Absent In China, Tipping Makes A Comeback At A Few Trendy Restaurants

    Sep 27, 2016
    Viewed for decades as capitalist exploitation, tipping is now encouraged at some upscale urban restaurants catering to wealthy young customers. Restaurateurs insist it's strictly voluntary.
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    The Salt
    Thad Vogler, at his restaurant Bar Agricole in 2011, says the no-tipping model didn't work out for his two San Francisco restaurants. Looking back, he would've hiked up his prices even more so the money flowed to the staff more evenly.
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    Why Restaurants Are Ditching The Switch To No Tipping

    May 15, 2016
    It's customer and staff complaints that did away with the model to start, but that's also what's bringing the tradition back to restaurants that've been experimenting with the policy to even out pay.
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    The Salt
    Seattle chef Renee Erickson won the 2016 James Beard Award as best chef in the Northwest. She employs 100 people at her restaurant group.
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    Why This Seattle Chef Is Embracing A Higher Minimum Wage For Employees

    May 06, 2016
    Small businesses in Seattle have to pay a minimum of $15 an hour starting in 2021. But chef Renee Erickson has adopted higher pay for employees of her restaurant group ahead of schedule.
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    The Salt
    <strong>Famous anti-tippers </strong>(from left): Leon Trotsky, William Howard Taft and Mark Twain. Trotsky refused to tip his waiters while living in the Bronx. The Russian revolutionary thought the practice let capitalist restaurant owners off the hook
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    When Tipping Was Considered Deeply Un-American

    Nov 30, 2015
    Imported from Europe, the custom of leaving gratuities began spreading in the U.S. post-Civil War. It was loathed as a master-serf custom that degraded America's democratic, anti-aristocratic ethic.
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    The Salt
    At fine-dining places, white workers overwhelmingly fill jobs with the heftiest salaries, while Latinos, blacks and other minorities have jobs with pay closer to the poverty level, a study finds.
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    The Stark Racial Divide In Pay For Restaurant Workers

    Oct 22, 2015
    At fine-dining places, white workers overwhelmingly fill jobs with the heftiest salaries, while Latinos, blacks and other minorities have jobs with pay closer to the poverty level, a study finds.
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    The Two-Way

    #NPRreads: A Digital Dark Age And A Story That's Part Listicle, Part Longread

    Oct 16, 2015
    Also this week: a look at President Obama's decision to keep more U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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    The Salt
    Gramercy Tavern, in New York City, one of Danny Meyer's restaurants. Meyer says he will try to keep the new prices on par with a 21 percent tip — what diners have been adding on average lately.
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    Danny Meyer To Banish Tipping And Raise Prices At His Restaurants

    Oct 14, 2015
    Meyer says "something fascinating and completely unfair" plagues the restaurant industry: Waiters' incomes have risen far faster than other staff. To balance salaries out, he'll charge more for food.
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    When to Tip and How Much

    Dec 13, 2010
    Writer Steve Dublanica found himself a little lubricated at a country fair in backwoods Pennsylvania. After using the temporary restroom, he found an attendant with a tip jar.
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