Welcome back to our monthly Taste Q&A column, where my food-writing colleague Paul Stephen and I field questions from Express-News readers. In past columns, we’ve answered questions about great places ...

Right now, restaurant owners with employees who earn tips are allowed to lower their hourly pay by $3.02 to offset tips ...

Murray State University Associate Professors of Marketing Drs. Ismail Karabas and Christopher A. Craig had a teaching case ...

Living off a server’s wage is nearly impossible for many restaurant employees. They heavily rely on customer tips to meet their monthly bills. The federal minimum wage for tipped employees in the ...

When you complain at a restaurant, specifically about a waiter, there are various things that can happen to them — including a loss of income that is hard to make up. Before you decide to complain ...

Money Talks columnist Darnell Mayberry writes that America’s tipping culture—rooted in classism and exploitation—should be ...

The negotiations at the state Capitol were ongoing Wednesday, nine days before a Michigan Supreme Court-ordered minimum wage ...

Though the encounter was frustrating, another table that witnessed the situation left the server a $50 tip as a gesture of ...

A 20% tip is pretty standard when dining in for a meal. But what about when you pick up takeout? Avoid these tipping mistakes to help ensure you're not tipping too much or too little when you carry ...

Among the extras? A service fee, a delivery fee, a City fee (like the $5 charge that companies have tacked on to offset ...

Yet much of the pro-tipping crowd’s argument centers on “if you can’t afford to go out to eat, stay home.” Meanwhile, consumers continue allowing restaurant owners to guilt their patrons ...