Andrew Friedman
speaker
369 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 2 May
Andrew Friedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, tipping is a very outdated system.
Restaurants dislike it because it puts the servers in a terrible position.
It creates this power dynamic between service worker, the waiter or waitress and customer and customers who
Looking at it that way can very often make unreasonable demands.
A lot of women servers will tell you that in the name of making the best living they can, they've put up with innuendos from male customers.
This is a very common complaint.
And they just don't say anything because they want to get the best tip that they can.
If it were up to restaurants, most of them would just have one price that covered your meal and the service team.
But that has not happened.
And places that have tried to do it, the most famous example is Danny Meyer, who has restaurants like Union Square Cafe and Gramercy Tavern in New York City.
He eliminated tipping for a while.
the customer resistance was so profound.
And he hasn't said this, but I also suspect he probably lost a little business
Because you're at a competitive disadvantage.
If you've eliminated tipping, you've just simply raised the prices of your menu items.
And when a customer looks at your menu, it seems out of whack to every other restaurant you might consider going to and what they charge.
So he actually abandoned that system, which I think is remarkable.
And I'm sure if he could have kept it, he would have.
But I think for anything to change on that level in the United States, at least in individual localities, it's going to take...
the entire community making the change at one time.
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