Antecedents of tips and servers' ability to predict tips in a restaurant setting

Journal of Foodservice Business Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-19

  Dombrowski, P J ^a   Namasivayam, Karthik ^a   Bartlett, Bart ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Foodservice managers; Servers; Tipping

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947732055     PISSN: 15378020     EISSN: 15378039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J369v09n01_02     Document Type: Article

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