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A warped illustration of an iPad with a tipping screen displayed, with 25%, 35%, 45%, 55%, no tip, or custom tip available as options, against a blurred photograph of a Weinstein dining hall.

Off-Third: Weinstein should implement iPad tipping

If a self-serve frozen yogurt shop can ask me for a tip, why can’t Cluckstein?
Sydney Barragan, Under the Arch Editor September 29, 2022

Off-Third is WSN’s satire column. My two roommates and I went to 16 Handles last week, and after paying $15 for a small cup that I filled up myself, the Airpod-wearing teenage...

A Response to ‘Here’s a Tip, Don’t Tip Your Waiters’

A Response to ‘Here’s a Tip, Don’t Tip Your Waiters’

Beth Sattur, Staff Writer March 7, 2018
We should tip servers even if we want employers to raise the minimum wage. Withholding tips from servers will not fix the problem.
One of Chef Danny Meyer’s many
restaurants, Union Square Café, will raise its prices
and eliminate tipping to ensure a
living wage for its employees.

NYU students talk the tipping point

Ankita Bhanot, Staff Writer October 26, 2015
NYU students weigh in on the controversial move to ban tipping.

Tipping fails workers

WSN Editorial Board February 3, 2015
The New York State wage board's recommendation to raise the tipped workers minimum wage is a band-aid for the misguided institution of tipping.