By TIME Staff
What’s normal elsewhere and radical in America–telling customers not to tip–has met resistance in some restaurants that have tried it. But if kitchens want to keep things cooking in the face of a pay gap between kitchen staff and servers, all-inclusive prices may be a necessary fix.
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