Pens
Do you think people tip more if you give them a nice pen to sign with? I ran a little test for about a month. I only gave people really nice pens. 540
(I say really nice, but they weren't cheap)
I noticed an increase in not only my tips, but an increase in my pens being stolen...(idk if it was other servers 'cause that's a thing and you're the worst) Maybe, the guests felt bad cause they were definitely going to steal the pen so they tipped more?
Next month to run a comparison I handed out cheap pens. None of them were stolen, but my tips were extremely unsteady compared to the previous month.
I understand there are too many factors at play to make a factual statement as to the correlation between the two variables. (I am working on a control variable where I only hand out pens at random and then try to base the tips off what pen they recieved.)
Am I delusional?? Could something so small actually increase/decrease your tip? 540