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A restaurant group that includes some of the United States’ highly regarded and most popular dining locations is set to eliminate tipping.
Restaurateur Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, which runs establishments like Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe in New York, will begin its new practices in November and the change could affect some 1,800 people employed by the company.
The no-tipping policy will launch at The Modern, a restaurant at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art. Meyer’s other restaurants will follow suit over the next year.

Over the last few years, reduced or eliminated tipping policies have been implemented in some US restaurants, most of them high end, including Manhattan’s Per Se and northern California’s Chez Panisse. To compensate for the loss of tips, some restaurants put a surcharge on the bill while others bump up menu prices to pay a higher hourly wage to servers.
Meyer’s group plans to increase menu prices and raise hourly wages for kitchen employees to $15.25 from $11.75 at The Modern, the New York Times reported. The increase will fall in line with the new state minimum wage of $15 an hour for fast-food workers. Menus will make it clear that prices include “hospitality”, and checks will not provide blank lines for a tip.
Tipping in the US is commonly seen as a tradition, a distinctive piece of American culture. But it can also be unfair to restaurant workers who do not always receive tips, and to servers who are judged based on their race, age and other factors that have nothing to do with their customer service.
 
 


Danny Meyer’s US restaurant group to implement no-tipping policy

No tips necessary at New York's Gramercy Tavern.  Photo: Daniel Krieger

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