Famous social psychologist Bibb Latante visiting hundreds of Parisian restaurants empirically inferred the following formula, how the size of the tip depends on a number of people sitting at table:
p = k Nt
where
t<1,
N is the number of guests at table
p – tip
k – coefficient (= quality of service)
Assume t=1/2, k =2 and let’s imagine a restaurant with two situations:
1) 12 visitors, 2 visitors at single table, N=12
2) 12 visitors at a big table, N=12
In both case the number of visitors are the same, but the tips are different:
in the first case p = 6*2*√2 ≅ 17$
in the second case p = 2*√12 ≅ 7$
The more people at a table the larger the tip, but the smaller the percentage of each person.
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