"In many Arab countries,
tipping is sometimes the only way to get around.
"People should always keep the culture of
tipping even when things have slightly gone up because I believe the more you give out to others, the more you get in return," she said.
France tip ten to 15 per cent Service compris or service charge is included by law in France so
tipping is not always expected.
(15) That report did not have as much impact on the industry or academy as I had hoped, but it did provide a guide for my own program of research on
tipping. Consequently, some 10 years after that report, there is more empirical evidence on many of the issues it identified.
FESTIVE
TIPPING Window-cleaners, bin men and milk men fall into the category of festive
tipping for many.
Tipping got its start centuries ago in Europe, where British aristocrats tipped their servants for good deeds, according to Kerry Segrave's book
Tipping: An American Social History of Gratuities.
The present field experiment took place in a privately owned local bar in the city of Spearfish, SD (population approximately 12,000) to determine whether the amount of clothing worn by a female bartender would affect the
tipping behavior of customers.
The middle of the book presents multiple "conversations with tipped employees and employers." These interviews with waiters waitresses and restaurant owners offer some background about why people choose a
tipping persona what it feels like to be "stiffed" by a customer the everyday life of a server and many other stories that provide background for the whole
tipping issue.
Schwartz (1997) claims that the low correlation between tips and service quality refutes the argument that
tipping is an efficient quality-control mechanism.
11-14, 2006 Gallup Lifestyle poll asked Americans what the appropriate percentage of a restaurant bill to leave as a tip is.aThe two most popular
tipping amounts are 15%, named by 37% of Americans, and 20%, named by 34%.
Gladwell traces some fascinating case studies--Sesame Street, the drop in crime in New York City in the mid 1990s--and offers a number of smart suggestions about what conditions are typically met before a "
tipping point," the moment when a trend becomes a phenomenon, when mere possibility becomes reality.
My $10 per-person/per-day thoughts on "mandatory"
tipping is that cruise lines simply should add a reasonable amount to the price of the cruise and eliminate
tipping altogether.