The modern day motorist of South Africa often experiences the fear or even suspicion of car theft or damage upon leaving their car parked and unattended at a public area such as a shopping centre. Since this is a common fear and occurrence, measures have been taken to ensure the safety of motor vehicles in parking lots at public areas.
Parking attendants will almost always be present at densely populated parking lots to watch over these vehicles while motorists leave them unattended and vulnerable. All that parking attendants expect in return is a small fee or “tip” as payment for watching over the motorist’s vehicle while he or she is separated from it.
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The following literature review covers elements of the research topic; validity is determined by the relevance of the information to the research. The sources of the material are assessed for reliability based on academic standard research practices and the fact that the information is published in recognised journals or writings. The purpose of this review of literature is to understand the knowledge already gained through research and to add value by adding information on parking attendant tipping in various income areas.
To clarify the practice of tipping, a tip can be defined as a small amount of money or other object of value given to a service provider in exchange for the services they provided (Soanes, 2001). Tipping can be seen as a type of gift or exchange of services (Shamir, 1984).
While tipping parking attendants is a relatively new practice in South Africa, tipping first began in England in the 1600’s, when a guest would stay in somebody’s private home; they were expected to pay a tip as a token of their gratitude for the warm hospitality they received. This soon spread to coffee shops and other service establishments (Unknown, 2014). Parking attendants have become common in the everyday life of the average car driving person although it only started to become a common sight roughly two decades ago (Nair, 2014). This was due to the political unrest in neighboring African countries forcing people to
In Ethiopia, taxis are mostly vans capable of carrying up to twelve passenger customers who pay a fixed rate to get to their destinations. The taxies have conductors and this assistant called “woyala” who collect fares. The fares are paid only in cash because there is no electronic payment system. The conductor calls out the names of the places on the way to the stops and final destination. There are no signs, so the passengers have to listen to the conductor calling out the locations. On the contrary, in the United States, taxies are mostly small and gave the customer privet ride to a specific destination. Fees are paid based on the distance driven, and electronic payment is also available for convenience purposes. Because of road unavailability and unaffordability of cars for local people, the taxi system in Ethiopia is also limited to very few cities unlike the United
This is a campaign to stop lack of respect show to service users and to ensure that their dignity is maintained through good and positive service. It encourages challenging of poor service or lack of respect.
When you go to the grocery store for food, if the cashier is nice to you, you never leave a tip do you? Exactly! The system goes like this, grocery store: no tip. Restaurant:
Today I will discuss the initial purposes of tipping and the customer’s point of view as well as the view of the servers on how the no tip policy would impact the service industry.
Tips are generally a small amount of money given to a person as gratitude for a service that has been provided. There are many times throughout our everyday lives in which we are put in a position to leave a gratuity. Whether it be dining at a restaurant, getting your hair cut at the salon, or having a few drinks with friends at a bar. In each case there was a service provided to you, now you have a decision to make, how much of a tip is considered acceptable and should you tip everyone that provides a service to you? There are many guidelines for consumers to follow. With modern technology there are convenient tip calculators available as features on most new cellular phones. When deciding on the tip amount the
The waitress at your favorite restaurant hastens through the kitchen all the way to your table to serve you your food.This is their daily routine. Some may be teenagers trying to get some pocket money, while others may be full time adults trying to make a living.Waiters typically make less than minimum wage. Keeping this in mind, waiters and waitresses solely rely on tips due to their extremely low wages. Tips make up pretty much their whole income. The tipping concept came about in the sixteenth century in Europe for promptitude. Tipping would essentially provide better service for customers. From the seventeen hundreds to this day, tipping has been ingrained into our societal norm.Tipping is so common that if one does not tip they are
When most people, tip they do so to reflect how the server took care of their needs.However, it has been researched that tip size does not always reflect the service.Most
In the essay “Tipping is an Abomination,” Brian Palmer believes tipping should be abolished in restaurants and different workforce. Palmer defines tipping as giving an amount for a worker who did a good service to a customer. Tipping started in the nineteen centuries in Europe where tipping was accepted in restaurants for labour costs. Palmer indicates tipping as a bad custom such as tipping doesn’t show demanding work, having different tip sizes, stereotyping ethnic groups, tipping doesn’t pay for a living wage, and sharing tips with co-workers. Tipping illustrates a bad custom because workers don’t receive the same amount as their co-workers and receive racism from customers. When giving out tips workers and customers in a restaurant should
In the essay “The Case Against Tipping” by Michael Lewis, Lewis strongly states his feelings against tipping and also whether tipping is an act of kindness or an obligation. One of his main views are, most food industries have eye grabbers that push customers to think about giving an extra tip. Lewis has very interesting arguments, but has very few examples; which makes his claims unsupported.
Although some progress has been made, the solutions Florida International University has implemented have not been successful in helping the parking problem.” The reason I choose this to be my thesis is because Florida International University has implemented programs, such as the carpool programs or mass transit services, but they are not effectively advertised or executed to the point where students feel motivated enough to want to participate in the services. Another of the services that I plan to talk about is the parking space locator. The parking space locator is beneficial, but it can be improved, for example, it only says how much space is taken up in a parking garage, given in percentages, but it does not show on which floors the free spots are located. Clemson has a similar system with the exact location though, “…students can grab their smartphones before they hop in their cars, home in on precious empty spots, and drive straight to the destination. That’s a far cry from the experience of circling blocks and lots for half an hour in search of a spot (Fliegler).” I feel that with that little bit of information could make the service much more
Service is the backbone of our society, especially in East Tennessee. I am a waitress at Flapjacks so my job is centered around service. As a waitress, my job is to serve my customers and make sure their experience at our restaurant is enjoyable. If I don’t serve my customers to the best of my abilities I am likely to not get a tip and our restaurant will get a bad reputation. The quality of service a business requires can truly make or break their success.
I will say: “You don’t need to tip anyone for helping you. As a customer, you are our priority”
It has been said more than once that Christians are some of the worst tippers. I have heard it from more than once from a waitress/waiter that they dread the sight of Christians. Their experience is that they want outrageous service but lack the capacity to reward that service with monetary appreciation. The problem that arises from such an endeavor is that you miss opportunities to be a blessing to others, the body of Christ does not appear to be generous and you devalue service.
Why the practice of tipping has emerged as a major method of compensating the wait staff;