http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/shake-shack-tipping-racist_us_586e8881e4b02b5f85879a61?
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Tipping, he explained, started after the Civil War when restaurants and the Pullman railroad company successfully petitioned the U.S. government to allow them not to pay their servers and instead ask customers to pay them tips.
"Therefore, no one could say they were being enslaved," he told podcast host Dan Pashman. "And no surprise, most of the people who were working in service professional jobs and restaurants and Pullman train cars were African-American."
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