Good Food
To Tip or Not to Tip
The debate over tipping at restaurants has a long, controversial history. Over the past year, we've seen restaurants get creative, from adding 3% healthcare surcharges to extra tip lines for kitchen staff. In New York, restauranteurs Danny Meyer and Andrew Tarlow have been praised for going tipless.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readThe debate over tipping at restaurants has a long, controversial history. Over the past year, we've seen restaurants get creative, from adding 3% healthcare surcharges to extra tip lines for kitchen staff. In New York, restauranteurs Danny Meyer and Andrew Tarlow have been praised for going tipless. We ask long-time restaurateur Michael McCarty, owner of Michael's in Santa Monica and New York, to weigh in.
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