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Monthly Archives: August, 2015


More Thoughts on Tipping

Published - August 26, 2015

I’m not clear why you and I are asked to subsidize sub-minimum wages for servers through tipping. The jobs they perform are every bit as essential to restaurant operations as those of cooks and dishwashers. Actually, the idea of increasing servers’ wages is catching on and there are now about a dozen restaurants in the country that have adopted the policy of forbidding tipping. I thought you might be interested in an example. According to Gene Johnson of the Associated Press, the management of Ivar’s Salmon House on Seattle’s Lake Union decided to institute the city’s $15 minimum wage two

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First Day!

Published - August 25, 2015

Hello! My name is Rio Fernandes and I’m the newest intern here at WCNY. This is the first of many blog posts I’ll be writing in the next few months as I chronicle my time at the station.  I figured the best way to kick-off this blog is to talk about my first day, which, as I’m sure you know, is always an experience. Debbie Stack: the first person I met. She immediately made me feel welcome and invited me on a tour of the the Broadcast and Education Center. I happily accepted and got to see the station in its entirety;

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Tipping Topics

Published - August 24, 2015

I’m happy to be resuming my regular food and beverage column at WCNY CONNECT. This first discussion will be a topic that has interested me for a long time: tipping. Frankly, I’m uncomfortable with the custom and wish that restaurant owners would simply pay servers a fair salary. If they did it would send the topic of tipping to the dust bin of irrelevancy. I’m not clear why you and I are asked to subsidize restaurant owners to pay servers who are just performing their assigned jobs. Actually the idea of increasing servers’ wages is catching on and there are

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