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A Clueless Tipper's Quest to Become the Guru of the Gratuity
HarperCollins
November 2010
On Sale: November 2, 2010
288 pages ISBN: 0061787280 EAN: 9780061787287 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
An irreverent, pavement-pounding, eye-opening
exploration of a neglected part of the American economy: tipping Tipping is huge in America. Almost everyone leaves at least
one tip every day. More than five million American workers
depend on them, and we spend $66 billion on tips each year.
And everyone recognizes that queasy feeling—in bars and
restaurants, barbershops and beauty parlors, hotels and
strip clubs, and everywhere else—when the check arrives or
the tip jar looms. Omnipresent yet poorly understood,
tipping has worked its way into almost every part of daily life. In Keep the Change, bestselling author Steve Dublanica dives
into this unexplored world, in a comical yet serious attempt
to turn himself into the Guru of the Gratuity. As intrepid
and irreverent as Michael Moore or A. J. Jacobs, Dublanica
travels the country to meet shoeshine men, strippers,
bartenders, bellhops, bathroom attendants, and many others,
all in an effort to overcome his own sweaty palms when faced
with those perennial questions: Should I tip? How much?
Throughout he explores why tipping has spread; he explains
how differences in gender, age, ethnicity, and nationality
affect our attitudes; and he reveals just what the cabdriver
or deliveryman thinks of us after we’ve left a tip. Written in the lively style that made Waiter Rant such a
hit, Keep the Change is a fun and enlightening quest that
will change the way we think—and tip.
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