From an article by the Times restaurant critic, Pete Wells, about tipping: "The restaurant business can be seen as a class struggle between the groomed, pressed, articulate charmers working in the dining room and the blistered, stained and profane grunts in the kitchen."
The same article refers to "the French Laundry in Healdsburg, Calif." I have not been to the French Laundry, but I have been to Healdsburg, and the French Laundry wasn't there; it is in Yountville, which is in Napa County, not Sonoma County, where Healdsburg is.