Sometimes you tip at a restaurant, sometimes you give a gratuity and more and more you’re paying a service charge. What happens to that money? All of those may equal 20%, but how much goes to the ...

At restaurants it’s even more confusing, and if you’ve never worked in one, you probably have no idea how that tip is divided among so many people. There are tip-outs, tip pools, and all kinds of ...

Tipping customs change because the systems behind them change. In most places, it’s shaped by wages, laws, or long-standing ...

Tips comprise over 57% of the median-earning restaurant worker’s income, down from nearly 65% in January 2020, ADP found. Diners are pulling back on tipping, but waiters and table bussers are still ...

The size of tips left by American restaurant-goers has shrunk in recent years. Across the country, the overall tipping average for restaurants came in at 18.8% in the third quarter of 2024, Toast data ...

These days, customers who visit a restaurant to pick up a carryout order, or even a fast-food drive-thru, may be greeted by a prompt on the screen asking how much they’d like to tip. In some cases, it ...

New York City’s redesigned outdoor dining program is too expensive and too bureaucratic for many small, diverse, neighborhood ...

When you tip someone, do you really know where those dollars are going? When someone at the deli makes you a bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll and you throw a dollar into the Styrofoam cup by the cash ...