{"id":3372,"date":"2010-08-10T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2010-08-10T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:51:00","slug":"server-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"Server School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very good idea for someone who wants to start a service business and is willing to travel.\u00a0 Start a half day seminar program that teaches people who work as servers how to get more tips.\u00a0 Proposed name: <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Get More Tips Tomorrow Guaranteed <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be a three or four hour class and will be live and interactive.\u00a0 The target market will be people in tip producing jobs.\u00a0 Wait staff, bell men and valets for instance. \u00a0 The price would have to be in the $60 to $80 range.\u00a0 But lots of people would take the class and the results could be very good.\u00a0 it turns out that there has been lots of research about tipping but the results are not getting filtered down to the people who can use it.\u00a0 The service providers.\u00a0 This class will give them practical information about how to get more tips.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the class came to me at dinner the other night.\u00a0 Nurit, Lillian and I were discussing an excellent\u00a0 paper Lillian wrote for her Hospitality Management Degree about the effect of gender on tipping.\u00a0 It is a really interesting topic that is hard to study and quantify.\u00a0 Tipping seems to be mostly cultural and has very little effect on service.\u00a0 Did you know that if the server touches you in the correct way you are likely to give them a larger tip?\u00a0 What do you think happens if the server discusses the prices on the menu with you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very good idea for someone who wants to start a service business and is willing to travel.\u00a0 Start a half day seminar program that teaches people who work as servers how to get more tips.\u00a0 Proposed name: Get More Tips Tomorrow Guaranteed It will be a three or four hour class and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-So","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}