To Tip or Not to Tip (2)

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Americans are tip crazy, every year they spent 40 billion dollars tipping people.

70 percent of those tips go to restaurant servers. So with so much money being spent, it makes sense that people will study this custom to understand exactly how it works.

Okay, one professor at Cornell University has spent years studying restaurant tipping. One thing he found is that when a small candy comes with the bill, the tip goes up.

Touching the customer on the shoulder when delivering the bill increases tips too, so does drawing a smiley face on the bill.

But, those things only work if the server is a woman. Now, if the server man or woman squats down next to, or sits that table while taking an order, the tip goes up on average of one dollar per table.

And here’s something surprising, by and large, good service does not increase a tip.

That is surprising. As wide spread as tipping is, there is a small growing movement in the US to abolish tipping. Some restaurants are finding it’s easier for customers and fairer to servers to just pay the wait-stuff, a flat wage out of the menu prices.





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