If you're anything like me, last week's article about how much to leave your server on financial advice site The Billfold was the first time you heard about the practice of tipping. Did you know, for example, that you're supposed to leave exactly 20 percent of the tip, never rounding up, even if it's only a couple…
People have been using the online movie maker Xtranormal to all kinds of delightful ends—see this video about getting a career as a journalist—and here's one that points out bad behavior from restaurant customers.
A new study shows that two-thirds of restaurant workers go to work when sick, meaning customers are exposed to disgusting working class germs. The outrage! It's almost as if restaurant workers don't get paid if they don't go to work.
Rotund, Croc-clad celebrity chef Mario Batali, who also works part-time as Gwyneth Paltrow's spirit guide, is being sued by the waiters and busboys at his highly regarded New York restaurant Del Posto. The staffers claim their tips were pooled illegally.
New York is set to issue new guidelines on how restaurants pay their workers. New recommendations: $5 per hour wages, mandatory tip pooling. Our hardworking servers deserve more! Some suggested justice-based restaurant worker laws, below. Add your own!
How the mighty have fallen! Ben Curtis, once nationally famous for being really enthusiastic whenever someone was getting a Dell, is now a waiter at Tex-Mex standby Tortilla Flats. "There were times when I made boatloads of money as an actor, but here I can be myself." Also, he "dressed up as the Dell Dude for the…
