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...performance-based pay they deserve, supporters of the policy feel that a salary elevates servers to a more professional status. "Our waiters have higher self-esteem, since they are no longer dependent on handouts from persons to whom they must be obsequious," says Barry Wine, owner of Manhattan's ultrapricey Quilted Giraffe, where there is a service charge. But in the competitive restaurant business, few owners are likely to pick up a hot potato like the service charge until they are sure their rivals are going to go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving Tips: Here comes the service charge | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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