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David frank started working for tips when he was 11 years old, delighting restaurant diners in New York with his magic tricks. A
David frank started working for tips when he was 11 years old, delighting restaurant diners in New York with his magic tricks. A
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2022-12-09
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问题
David frank started working for tips when he was 11 years old, delighting restaurant diners in New York with his magic tricks. As a teenager he would make an average of $60—70 in an evening—not bad, but he wanted more. So he started reading research on tipping, and found a study showing that servers who left a sweet at the end of the meal could up their pay. He tried handing punters a playing card at the end of his act, hoping that the memento would persuade them to part with more cash. It worked.
Mr. Frank’s findings confirmed the notion of the tip as a sort of reward for outstanding service. That may sound straightforward, but a follow-up study with Michael Lynn of Cornell University, where Mr Frank now happens to be a student, found an opportunity for some sleight of hand.
They discovered that performing a magic trick at a table also increased the tips for the waiters and waitresses serving there, even though they had done absolutely nothing more than usual. Though tipping may seem like a simple economic transaction, by incentivising people to perform extra well, it turns out to be anything but.
For a start, economists are puzzled by the fact that so many people give tips, voluntarily handing out cash for a routine service, when it is assumed that customers generally want to pay as little as possible for what they buy. But fuzzier factors also seem to matter, like the feelings of gratitude that Mr Frank inspired. A survey in 2010 by Ofer Azar of Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found that 85% of American tippers claimed to be following a social norm, while 60% said they tipped to avoid guilty.
During the pandemic these fuzzy factors appear to have intensified. Mr Lynn observed that people have been tipping more generously even while ordering takeaway food, while Sarah Conlisk of the Federal Reserve Board has found that people travelling in richer areas have been tipping their taxi drivers more than before.
The presence of a pandemic or of a magician performing at one’s table are just two of an array of factors that may affect the size of a tip. A tipper may simply be touched by the server. If a waiter squats down beside you at the table as he or she takes your order, that often elicits a higher tip. Good weather may spur generosity too.
According to the last two paragraphs, which of the following would spur a higher tip?
选项
A、Adverse weather conditions.
B、Travelling in richer areas.
C、A kind behavior of the server.
D、Ordering take-away food.
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据题干可定位至最后两段。最后一段第三句说If a waiter squats down beside you at the table as he or she takes your order, that often elicits a higher tip (如果一个服务员在餐桌旁蹲下来为你点餐,你通常会付更多的小费),C项恰是对该内容的高度概括,故正确。A项属于是非混淆,与原文中的Good weather相悖,故排除。选项B项和D项属于答非所问,根据第五段第二句可知,这两种情况下支付更多小费只发生在疫情期间,故排除这两项。故本题答案为C项。
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