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Bay Area Eateries Forge Ahead With ‘No Tip’ Experiment

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Andrew Hoffman wants to end tipping as we know it.

Hoffman is co-owner of Comal, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Berkeley. About a year ago, he followed in the footsteps of other local restaurants and replaced tips with a 20 percent service charge.

“I think tipping is an unhealthy practice,” Hoffman says. “I would be in favor of anything that got restaurants out of that model.”

There has been a lot of criticism in recent years about the tip system. One of the biggest complaints is that it allows for discrimination. Studies have shown, for example, that black waiters make less

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