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Minimum wage tips bill fails in Montana senate

A bill that would cap the minimum wage on employees who also get tips failed in the Montana Senate Tuesday. [...]

Local restaurants cited for labor and wage violations

Two popular Ithaca restaurants have recently been cited by the New York State Department of Labor for underpaying and overworking their kitchen staffs. [...]

To smoke or not to smoke? Barroom thespians find the play’s the thing.

By MARY LYNN SMITH, Star Tribune

February 14, 2008

In Mark Benjamin’s view, every bar’s a stage and all the men and women merely smokers.

Benjamin, a former Marine, has a soft spot for VFW halls, American Legion clubs and small outstate bars he says have lost business because of the statewide smoking [...]

Utilize “The Secret” to earn bigger tips…

Have you heard of the DVD called “the Secret”? Well it isn’t such a secret anymore. The DVD was released in March 2006 and according to Time Magazine, the DVD has sold 500,000 units within the first 6 months. Today it sells well over 5,000 copies a day! It ranked in Amazon’s Top-5 [...]

Should Tipping Be Voluntary?

If New Deal legislation had been enacted in the 1930s requiring people to tip waiters 15 percent of the total amount of their restaurant bill, we might have been subjected to the [...]