Is tipping a thing of the past? Should people just get paid for their work? Listen to The Larry O’Connor Show today from 3pm – 6pm to share your thoughts on tipping in 2017.
Neal St. Anthony recently pinned an article in the Seattle Times titled, The search for an alternative to tipping. An excerpt of the article is below:
Saru Jayaraman, director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, advocates abolishing restaurant tipping in favor of a $15-an-hour minimum wage as the best way to economically uplift the working poor.
She recently spoke to about 200 labor activists, students, restaurant owners and others at the University of Minnesota business school. She said that tipping is rooted in a time when women and minorities were not entitled to fair wages and relied on the gratitude of customers. [Read More]
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