Some generations — and genders — are more generous than others.
“Give as if you were taking,” Hisham Matar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the memoir “The Return,” said his late father advised him. But not everyone follows that rule when dealing with members of the service industry, according to new research.
Government data concluding that women are paid 83 cents on the dollar compared to men might suggest that men would tip more rather than less. But that’s not the case. Baby boomers are more likely than millennials to tip restaurant servers and taxi or ride-share drivers , hair stylists , food delivery and hotel housekeepers .
Government data concluding that women are paid 83 cents on the dollar compared to men might suggest that men would tip more rather than less. But that’s not the case. Rossman has a theory: “People who work in the service industry tend to be better tippers.” A 2018 survey by the same organization found that diners in the South and West tend to tip less, while married people tip more than singles and more than half of Americans aged 65 and over tip 20% or more at restaurants, the highest of any age group.
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