Restaurants Adopt Service-Included Systems

Some restaurants are moving to a service-included system (also called gratuity-free or no-tipping) to both better protect themselves from employee wage and hour claims and adjust their business model to remain profitable given increased labor (and rent and food and compliance) costs from increases in the minimum wage. The linked NYTimes article explores some early results...

Year of Upheaval for Restaurants That Ended Tipping
By JULIA MOSKIN DEC. 13, 2016
https://nyti.ms/2k9eoEL

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