V.I.P. Modeling Agency | Tipping

V.I.P. Modeling Agency informs you that with more than $40 billion spent on tips in the food-service industry alone every year-and that's just in the U.S.-we'd like to think we know why we're giving all this money away. As it is so often, however, our grasp on what motivates our behavior is tenuous. Tipping did, in fact, migrate here from Europe after the Civil War. And it caused some controversy. Americans have long been suspicious of tipping as undemocratic. And yet in fields from food service to hair cutting to taxi driving, tipping has become an ingrained part of our culture.

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