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Delivery Tipping Map Shows Stingy Customers In Financial District
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Christopher Robbins
Published Dec 10, 2011
Modified Dec 12, 2011
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Proper tipping etiquette (20%, 90% of the time) can be enforced by the angry stares of your tablemates and the shame that gnaws at your soul when you look a competent, friendly server in the eye and tip them 15%. But who's keeping you in line when you summon chimichangas to your apartment on a rainy night? Visual.ly takes 3.5 million Seamless orders and creates a nifty chart showing the most popular foods ordered on the service and the average percentage of tips left on them. What neighborhood is the stingiest? The Financial District, with an average tip of 12.31% Way to put those company credit cards to use!
Some other *ahem* 1%ers in the West Village are a bit kinder, and tip the highest on average at 14.24%. Granted, the data is limited to somewhat Manhattan-centric Seamless orders (and Staten Island and the Bronx aren't even included) but nevertheless, the data is interesting. Why do our neighbors tip more on Mexican food than pizza?
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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