Meanwhile, tip jars have long existed at the cash registers of bakeries, bodegas, or coffee shops. What’s different now is that tipping requests are spreading throughout industries and ...

A new court ruling on gratuities at Starbucks underscores the uncertainty that the worker you intend to tip by putting cash ... Joe in Breckenridge, Colo. Coffee shop owners usually disqualify ...

And even though customers are complaining, businesses aren't fighting it because of the third main driver of tip-flation: the job market. Jung says restaurants, coffee shops and other service ...