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☆ In Milan, Giving the Aperitivo a New Twist
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Robert Simonson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2019, a space upstairs from the main bar opened as Sala Spiritello. The most popular drink there is the Compadre, made with mezcal, chinotto liqueur, agave syrup, sweet vermouth, bitters and the inevitable Campari. And soon there will be a third smaller, invitation-only space in the basement called Sala Gaspare, named after the company founder, Gaspare Campari. Architectural monuments stand next to newer construction; timeless sartorial style meets current fashion on the street each day. The aperitivo will always be king in Milan.

Persons: bartenders, mixology, Tommaso Cecca, Sala Gaspare, Gaspare Campari, they’re Organizations: Sala, New York Times, Travel Dispatch Locations: Milan

☆ Etiquette expert: The No. 1 place people still tip 20%—even though they don't have to
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"Tipflation" could be blamed on tablets or the post-pandemic economy — but consumers seem to be giving in to the pressure and leaving more cash behind. Sure, most Americans report feeling negative about tipping, but service workers are earning exponentially more in gratuity than before the pandemic, according to payroll provider Gusto. From March 2020 to May 2023, hourly wages only rose 18%, compared with a 42% increase in tip earnings, the company found. Of the 300,000 small and medium-sized businesses included in the analysis, bar workers made more in tips than employees in other service industries. Kabir agreed, saying he tips upwards of 40% for particularly good bar service.

Persons: Saad Kabir, Haley Truchan, Kabir, Yonas Haile Organizations: New York City Public Schools, CNBC, Bar, Fidelity Investments Locations: Manhattan

☆ More states want to let kids work as bartenders
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —More states are letting teenagers serve alcohol at bars and restaurants, part of a growing rollback of child labor protection laws across the United States. The restaurant industry already has the highest number of child labor law violations, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Efforts to lower alcohol serving ages are part of a larger push to loosen child labor protections in states around the country. Federal laws providing minimum protections for child labor were enacted nearly a century ago. But in the past two years, at least 14 states have introduced or passed laws rolling back child labor protections, the Economic Policy Institute reports.

Persons: Alabama —, ”, Nina Mast, Cargill, Tyson, Joe Biden’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Economic Policy Institute, National Restaurant Association, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economic, Institute, “, US Department of Labor, Packers Sanitation Services, JBS, New York Times Locations: New York, United States, — Iowa, Michigan , Ohio , Kentucky, West Virginia, New Mexico, Alabama, Wisconsin, Idaho, Arkansas

☆ Other countries don't have an issue with 'tipflation.' Here's how much people tip around the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In part, that's because tips make up a larger part of workers' pay in the U.S., particularly in industries like entertainment, food service, and leisure and hospitality. In fact, in some of those jobs, workers make less than minimum wage because they are considered "tipped employees." (Some states are now increasing the hourly minimum wage for tipped employees or eliminated tipping wages altogether.) This applies primarily to restaurant workers, although other employees who receive more than $30 a month in tips may qualify. For these workers, tips can boost wages by about 25%, according to data from payroll platform Gusto.

Persons: Owen Franken, Jaime Peters, it's, Lynn, Luke Pardue Organizations: Maryville Locations: Europe, U.S

☆ Amsterdam Tries to Dim the Glare on Its Red-Light District
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It has been a goal sought after by Amsterdam for years: dissuading rowdy, brawling tourists from overtaking the red-light district. The Dutch city announced new measures this spring to crack down on noise and substance abuse, which residents have long complained about in the district. But sex workers, bartenders and entrepreneurs say the new rules haven’t been effective in making the area safer or quieter. The new rules introduced this spring set earlier closing times for bars (2 a.m., and no new entry after 1 a.m.), stopped sex workers from working after 3 a.m. instead of 6 a.m. and banned marijuana smoking in the street. But many sex workers say the regulations make them less safe because they have less time to earn enough money to cover the cost of their rooms, pressuring them to accept clients they would otherwise turn down.

Persons: haven’t Locations: Amsterdam

☆ Do you always need to tip 20%? Here's how much an etiquette expert says to leave at restaurants, hotels and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The barista hands you your coffee and spins their tablet around to show a screen that prompts you to tip 15%, 20%, 30% or 0% on your order. Sitting down for a meal: Always tip 15% to 20% These rules haven't changed much. Gottsman and other industry experts still recommend tipping 15% to 20% on your bill when you have a sit-down meal at a restaurant. How much to tip on vacationWhen you're traveling, Gottsman says you should always leave a tip for valets, bellhops, housekeepers and shuttle drivers. Even if there is a fee for valet service, you still tip the valet."

Persons: Diane Gottsman, Gottsman, —, Douglass Miller, Cornell University's Nolan, it's, Miller, they're, gratuity Organizations: Digital, Protocol, CNBC, Cornell University's, Cornell University's Nolan School of Hotel Administration Locations: Texas, U.S

☆ South Park's creators have eliminated tipping at Denver's famed Casa Bonita. Servers now make $30 an hour — and some are mad.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Casa Bonita, a 50-year-old Mexican restaurant in Colorado, reopened after a $40 million renovation. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker bought the joint, which was featured in their show. The series, which is set in the fictional small town of South Park, Colorado, features Casa Bonita in an episode in its seventh season. Trey Parker (left) and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, purchased Casa Bonita in 2021. The zany interior of Casa Bonita, pictured in 2019, has been remodeled, while still being faithful to the original, the new owners have said.

Persons: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, —, Araya Doheny, Casa Bonita's, Fox31, Axios, It's, Hyoung Chang, Stefanie Jones, Jones Organizations: Casa, Service, The Denver Post, Casa Bonita, Employees, Denver Gazette Locations: Casa Bonita, Colorado, Lakewood , Colorado, South Park , Colorado, Park, Bonita, Denver

☆ 2 Tennessee restaurants had to pay $270,000 to servers who were forced to share tips with dishwashers, the labor department says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Two restaurants made servers give $5 in tips to dishwashers on Fridays and Saturdays, the DOL said. The restaurants in Nashville also failed to pay overtime rates and keep accurate records, per the DOL. The restaurants paid $270,751 in back wages to 82 employees following the investigation. The DOL said that the restaurants had paid $270,751 in back wages to 82 employees following the investigation. As well as requiring servers to share tips with dishwashers, the restaurants failed to pay employees overtime rates of one-and-a-half times their usual hourly wages for hours worked over 40 in a week, the DOL said.

Persons: DOL, —, Lisa Kelly Organizations: Service, Department of Labor, Labor Locations: Nashville, Nashville , Tennessee, Tennessee

☆ International tipping: How to cut through the chaos and confusion
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

In the United States, “tipping is very customary. Leighton also said you won’t find a tipping culture on the island of Taiwan. Robinson said the tipping culture is less pervasive in Sicily than the United States and even more laid-back than in Rome. As for tipping culture in the US vs. the UK, Ryan Burditt said, it’s “really opposites to me. Robert Knopes/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesVisitors to the United States could be in for some tipping culture shock.

☆ Amazon lets users buy alcohol with its palm-scanning payment system
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Amazon is adding a feature to its palm-based payment system that will allow users to buy alcohol by swiping their hand. The system, called Amazon One, lets people pay for items by placing their palm over a scanning device. To purchase alcohol, users have to upload a government-issued ID on the Amazon One website, the company wrote in a blog post on Monday. To start, the Coors Field baseball stadium in Denver, Colorado, will let attendees use Amazon One to purchase alcohol, Amazon said. Amazon One and other payment systems that use biometric data have faced some pushback from privacy advocates.

☆ Restaurant Review: A Trip That Began in Oaxaca Continues in the Bronx at Tobalá
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Pete Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sometimes it takes an entire meal before I know whether I want to write about a new restaurant. At Tobalá, an eight-month-old Mexican place in Riverdale in the Bronx, I was pretty sure after one drink. The drink was a carajillo, a cocktail made with two ingredients, espresso and the Spanish liqueur Licor 43, shaken over ice. The carajillo was invented in Spain and became even more popular in Mexico, but is eclipsed in New York by the espresso martini. The espresso martini is a decent cocktail, but a well-made carajillo is a great one.

☆ After Decades of Drinks and Laughs, Is It Last Call at the Friars Club?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Julia Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

(It’s always been mostly men; the first woman admitted was Liza Minnelli in 1988.) Its headquarters since the 1950s, the Monastery is a shrine to the club’s heyday, with framed black-and-white photos of smiling comedy legends. The club, a nonprofit corporation, lost its tax-exempt status in 2010. He was kept on for several months after his sentencing, before the club’s board fired him in 2020, an event for which he has brought legal action against the club. The lender said in court papers that the club also owes money to the restaurant and bartenders employee union, the city’s Environmental Control Board, and the New York State Department of Labor.

☆ Inside the Quest for Totally Transparent Cocktail Ice
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Robert Simonson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Camper English’s obsession with ice began with its opposite: boiling water. To Mr. English, this was an unacceptable situation. “I was trying to confirm or disprove theories on making clear ice that I had been hearing from bartenders,” he said. Now, with Mr. English’s new tome, “The Ice Book,” out May 23 from Red Lightning Books, he’s made it possible for every cocktail enthusiast to master clear-ice at home. Mr. English had always heard that an easy way to achieve clear ice was to boil the water before freezing it.

☆ Where is Goldman Sachs' David Solomon going on those private jets?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider's Dakin Campbell compiled flight data on Goldman Sachs' two private planes from the beginning of 2022 through March of this year. Much of the focus on Goldman's jets, as Insider has previously reported, has been Solomon's personal use of them. If Goldman and Solomon are playing by the rules, why does it matter? And while I've written before about corporate jets being the scapegoat for excessive spending, that was moreso regarding business travel. Click here for all the details on where Goldman's two private planes have flown since 2022.

☆ Bartenders Are Giving Blue Cocktails the Green Light
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Robert Simonson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At Rolo’s, a restaurant in Ridgewood, Queens, the bar director Tony Milici recently flirted with the idea of putting a blue drink on the cocktail menu. The result was Sacrebleu, a blue riff on the gin fizz, made with rum, velvet falernum and blue curaçao. “I slept just fine knowing I made the Ramos gin fizz blue,” he said. Craft cocktail bartenders have seemingly gotten over any high-minded reservations about blue drinks, as they’ve begun slowly appearing across menus in the past few years. They have even produced a few quasi-famous new drinks, such as the Gun Metal Blue, at Porchlight in Manhattan, made with the citrus-based liqueur blue curaçao, like most blue drinks.

☆ Chartreuse, a green herbal liqueur, has skyrocketed in popularity. But monks make it and they refuse to meet demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Aidan Pollard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Chartreuse, a centuries-old liqueur, is made by the Carthusian order of monks in the French Alps. In 2019, the monks capped production to lower their environmental impact and focus on prayer. "It used to be something you could rely on being available, so I never really paid much attention to it," Joshua Lutz, a loyal lover of the liqueur, told the Times. According to the New York Times, the Carthusian monks implemented a production cap in 2019, in order to limit their environmental impact, and focus more strongly on solitude and prayer. Michael K. Holleran, a former monk who oversaw Chartreuse production in the 1980s, told the Times.

☆ Opinion | Twitter Is Broken. Thanks, Elon.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Farhad Manjoo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

He’s frequently struggled to serve his customers, yet he’s penalized them for mentioning the competition. Musk moved fast and broke nearly everything — the speed and totality with which he’s ruined the site has been almost impressive. More than that, Twitter under Musk appears to have lost the thing that made it impossible to quit: Its centrality. At its cultural peak, from about 2015 to perhaps 2020, what people talked about on Twitter seemed to set the agenda for discussions elsewhere. And now, when something’s going down, Twitter rarely feels like the place where everyone is gathering to watch.

☆ Why Is Chartreuse Hard to Find Right Now? Ask the Monks Who Make It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Becky Cooper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

According to Chartreuse Diffusion, the business arm of the monks’ operation, it took more than 150 years for the Carthusians to “unravel the secret of the manuscript.”Chartreuse became “a mixologist’s ace in the hole,” said Joe Kakos, an owner of Kakos Market, a liquor store in Birmingham, Mich. Many credit Murray Stenson, a bartender at the Zig Zag Café in Seattle, with repopularizing the liqueur in 2003 when he resurrected the century-old Last Word cocktail, a mixture of gin, Chartreuse, lime juice and maraschino liqueur. “I almost feel a little bit guilty,” said Ben Dougherty, the cafe’s owner. In 2020, as the pandemic turned many people into at-home mixologists, sales of Chartreuse in the United States doubled, a pattern that held true worldwide, according to Chartreuse Diffusion. Global sales topped $30 million in 2022.

☆ This side hustle for night owls is in high demand—and can pay up to $50 per hour
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Leisure and hospitality added 72,000 jobs in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Check out Qwick, ZipRecruiter and JitjatjoThere are many ways to go about getting a job in hospitality. Gigs through the sites can bring in minimum wage to about $30 per hour, says Kristof. You can also scour local bars, restaurants and cafes for openings, or reach out to local event spaces to see if they're hiring. Restaurant workers make an average of $14 per hour, according to ZipRecruiter, while event staff make an average of $15 per hour.

☆ 'People want to do the right thing': Why 79% of hotel guests say you should tip — but only 30% do
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

They want to do the right thing," says Diane Gottsman, an etiquette expert and owner of the Protocol School of Texas. Run your credit card at a restaurant, and your server will hand you a receipt with a "tip" line. In a recent survey from hotel software firm Canary Technologies, 79% of hotel guests said they think workers should get tips. But hotel workers in the survey said only about 30% of guests typically tip. As for a tip, you don't need to break out your wallet for directions to a nearby coffee shop, says Gottsman.

☆ 35 secret terms only cruise workers know — and the ones you don't want to hear as a passenger
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Cruise workers have their own secret language they use to communicate with one another. That's because crew members have dozens of secret code words and sayings they use to communicate while keeping passengers in the dark. Insider compiled a dictionary of cruise ship language based on interviews with cruise workers, previous reporting, and industry blogs. GUSTAVO GRANADO/AFP via Getty ImagesBabaloo: Alternatively spelled "Babalu," this is widespread cruise worker slang that means "fool" or "idiot." Cruise to Nowhere: Also called a "stay-cation" by some cruise workers, this is when a ship cruises at sea without stopping at any ports.

☆ It’s not just your imagination. More places are asking you to tip
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —More stores now offer customers the option to tip, from coffee shops to ice cream stores. They are also overwhelmed with the number of places that give them the option to tip with a card on an iPad, leading people to be less generous. Although consumers are accustomed to tipping waiters, bartenders and other service workers, tipping a barista or cashier may be a new phenomenon for many shoppers. Some customers tip no matter what. Others feel guilty if they don’t tip or embarrassed if their tip is stingy.

☆ A Skeptic’s Tour of New York City’s Natural Wine Bars
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Lettie Teague | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ON THE CASE Lettie Teague ventured into the natural wine bars of New York City with an open mind and a battery of questions for the bartenders. I’ve had some natural wines that were pleasant and many that were not. So I decided to taste the wines in their natural habitat: natural-wine bars. You can find natural-wine bars all over the world, and New York City—on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, in particular—is a real stronghold. If I was going to get a clearer impression of natural wine and perhaps taste some better wines, these New York neighborhoods seemed like good places to start.

☆ 2 Florida restaurants kept staff tips to cover dine-and-dash customers and illegally charged workers for their uniforms, the DOL says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two restaurants in Florida kept servers' tips to cover dine-and-dash customers, the DOL said. A total of $190,730 in back wages and liquidated damages was recovered for the workers, per the DOL. Employers are not allowed to keep staff tips under any circumstances under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The two restaurants – Red Mesa Restaurant and Red Mesa Cantina – had also deducted the cost of employees' uniforms from their wages, meaning that some were paid less than the minimum wage. Red Mesa Restaurant and Red Mesa Cantina also failed to pay the correct overtime rate of 1 ½ times workers' normal hourly pay for hours worked over 40 in a week.

☆ Florida Great Displacement: Climate Change Forces Residents to Leave State
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Jake Bittle | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

The Keys are also the first flock of canaries in the coal mine of climate change. The hurricane made undeniable what previous floods had only suggested: that climate change will someday make life in the archipelago impossible to sustain. The decision to leave, on the other hand, which once signified surrender, now looks more like acceptance of the inevitable. It's this messiness that is reflected in the word "displacement": the migratory shifts caused by climate change are as chaotic as the weather events that cause them. This is an excerpt adapted from THE GREAT DISPLACEMENT: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle.

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