>Service quality affects tip amount very little (~1%), but what does affect it race, age, and gender.
No shit. There isn't much objective meritocracy in work involving human interaction. Even Mythbusters proved bigger breasts gets you bigger tips.
No shit. There isn't much objective meritocracy in work involving human interaction. Even Mythbusters proved bigger breasts gets you bigger tips.
It's a known fact better looking people get treated better by their fellow clothed apes in all walks of life, including and especially, service industry work.
A theory that "tips are always determined only by service quality" is indeed disproved by Myth Busters. But that's not what he said.