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We Serve You -- We Aren't Servants

Food Politic | Posted 05.15.2013 | Small Business
Read More: Food Justice, Tipped Wage, Food Politic, Food Policy, Server, Saru Jayaraman, Book Review, Restaurant Industry, Behind the Kitchen Door, Minimum Wage, Restaurant, Waitress, Book, Disgruntled Employee, Worker's Rights, Waiter, Worker Justice, Small Business News
Food Politic

If we really wanted restaurants to pay their workers fairly, we would require them to pay their own workers and factor that expense into their prices -- much like every other business has ever had to do.

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You Might Not Be Tipping Enough

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 09.25.2012 | Home
Read More: Eating Out, Service Gratuity, Poll, Food and Beverage Industry, Gratuity, Server, New York City, Restaurant Tips, Tipping 30 Percent, Video, Tipping 20 Percent, Tipping 15 Percent, Tips, Waiter, How Much Should You Tip, Tipping, Home News

Forget 15 percent. Or even 20 percent. The new normal in restaurant tipping is to give a full 25 to 30 percent of the tab, the New York Post reports. ...

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Radiofail: Radiohead's Website Apparently Can't Cope with Demand

Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Website, The King of Limbs, Fail, King of Limbs, Web Server, Credit Card, Radiofail, Server, Radiohead, Technology News
Eliot Van Buskirk

Radiohead surprised fans on Friday by selling its latest album, The King of Limbs, a day early, but its web sales app does not appear to be up to the task.

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Blackberry-Saudi Arabia Deal To Add Server, Share Data Could Set Precedent

AP | ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Russia, Encrypted Emails, Blackberry, Terrorism, Cell Phones, Saudi Arabia, Rim, Emails, Server, China, Privacy, Research in Motion, Telecom, Technology News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A preliminary agreement between the maker of the popular BlackBerry smart phone and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which go...

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Restaurant Secrets: 5 Things Your Server Won't Tell You

Divya Gugnani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Kitchen Confidential, Raw Fish, Open Table, Divya Gugnani, Behind the Burner, Server, Day Boat Scallops, Nuts, Bar Nuts, Restaurants, Fish, Slidepollajax, Fish on Mondays, Home News
Divya Gugnani

Like every other industry, restaurants have a few dirty little secrets under their belts that they try to hide from customers.

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R.I.P. Seattle P-I: First Major Newspaper to Go Web Only

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Chinese Democracy, Hearst Corp, Kevin Cogill, Shelly Palmer, AT&T, Standards and Poor, Axel Rose, Cisco, Council for Research Excellence, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Media News, Riaa, Mediabytes, Server, Guns N Roses, Media News
Shelly Palmer

The P-I will become an experiment of sorts for Hearst, who will try to figure out whether or not the company can cut overhead and increase ad rev on a web-only model.

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