Why Can’t You Tip Your Uber Driver From Within The App?
(redsox223)Uber’s goal is to make the process of hailing a cab seamless and easy, without requiring users to carry cash or even have any idea what street address they’re at. The company’s success shows...
View ArticleWould You Tip Your Lawyer Or Your Dentist?
(Smiley Kailee)In discussions of the custom of tipping, you never hear typical consumers wish that they were expected or asked to tip their service providers in more industries. Yet Square, a service...
View ArticleWorkers Say UK Restaurant Chain Keeps Their Tips, Makes Them Lie To Customers...
(Michelle Rick)When you’re eating at a restaurant and they impose a “service charge,” where do you assume that money goes? While laws regarding the pay of tipped workers are different in the United...
View ArticleParent Company Of 13 Prominent NYC Restaurants Decides To Eliminate Tipping
Union Square Hospitality Group isn’t a household name nationwide, but it’s the parent company of 13 prominent restaurants in New York City. It was also previously the parent company of burger chain...
View ArticleJoe’s Crab Shack Tests No-Tipping Policy, Raises Server Wages To $14/Hour
Joe’s Crab Shack will become the first national full-service chain to test a no-tipping policy, following in the footsteps of several prominent New York-based restaurants that ditched gratuity last...
View ArticleJoe’s Crab Shack Backs Away From No-Tipping Policy
Six months after Joe’s Crab Shack became the first national full-service chain to test a no-tipping policy, the company is ditching the idea. Joe’s Crab Shack is scrapping the gratuity-free model at...
View ArticleDrunk Customer Returns To Restaurant The Next Day To Take Back $1,000 Tip
Usually when someone leaves an exorbitant tip at a restaurant, folks ask things like, “What made them so generous? What’s the heartwarming story behind it?” But one restaurant owner was a bit more...
View ArticleOne State & One City Voted To Eventually Do Away With Sub-Minimum Wages For...
If you’ve never worked in the foodservice or hospitality industry, you may not know that employees who rely on tips often earn base pay that is significantly less than minimum wage (the federal minimum...
View ArticleUber Will Soon Let All Drivers Accept Tips
Amid increasing tensions between Uber drivers and its “Always be hustlin'” corporate bro-verlords, the currently CEO-less company has decided to institute a big change that could result in drivers...
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