Making fun food is not enough; it's not nearly enough. I love all the things I create, I love the platform I have just as a chef, but that's not enough to make me feel good at night. [L'Oca d'Oro co-owner Adam Orman] and I both feel this is a platform of responsibility within an industry where there are systemic problems, like tipping.Tipping is one of the tools by which discrimination is allowed to exist. I've seen the implicit racism that tipping leads to. Tipping started right after the end of slavery. It's basically a tool to keep control over people, to keep control over indentured servitude. Then you carry that 100 years further and you think about gender expectations and what one needs to do for a tip. In certain places, women have to exhibit a certain behavior and sell a certain something in order to get more tips, in order to survive in that atmosphere—and that sucks.Read more at Munchies.