Trend to Banish Tips From Restaurants

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Paying the restaurant tab without including a tip may be the wave of the future. Creative Commons image by Flickr user booleansplit

By Liz Pfeffer, KALW Crosscurrents

Alyssa Arian has worked in San Francisco restaurants for a decade and, like most servers, she got into it for the tips.

“Some nights you leave with $80 or $90,” she says. “$100 is kind of the average mark for what you want as a server, sort of anywhere in this city I think as a minimum.”

Since February, though, Arian hasn’t earned any tips. She’s working at Sous Beurre Kitchen, a new French spot in the Mission where tipping’s not allowed.

Read the complete story at KALW Crosscurrents.

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