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The "Dan Gar Talking Tip Jar" provides
an impetus that is greatly needed.
- Too many people don't realize how tip-dependent service
industry employees are. Either they don't realize the importance
of tips, don't find them applicable to certain types of restaurants,
or just simply forget to offer them. This has brought about
negative effects on the workers, and leaves their employers
to take drastic actions.
- For example, many restaurants began including calculated
tips on final bills, only to learn that many customers didn't
realize the gratuity was already included. This only resulted,
in some cases, in customers actually paying over 30 percent
in tips without realizing it. Because many establishments
found this to be unfair, the practice has ceased. This hasn't
changed the low-wage situation of the workers, though.
- The "Dan Gar Talking Tip Jar" can provide the reminder without
any risk of unfairness to customers. Its visual presence and
verbal response can ensure that customers are reminded
of gratuity obligations, and adequately thanked for them.
The "Dan Gar Talking Tip Jar"
can serve a primary need of millions of workers.
- Tips and gratuities mean much more than a compliment to the millions that work in different service fields. Even the U.S. Department of Labor acknowledges that “tips comprise a major portion of earnings” for the Americans employed in restaurants, bars and many other service industries.
- And because they earn tips, a majority of these employees are paid far below the minimum wage by their employers. Many companies within the service industry class are only required to pay their employees $2.13 per hour. This leaves these food and beverage industry workers, who average only $6.42 an hour in total pay, very reliant on tips, which comprise over two-thirds of their total income.
- The "Dan Gar Talking Tip Jar": can provide these 6.5 million Americans employeed in the food and beverage service industry with the additional security they need to ensure consistency in income – and can provide their customers with a little entertainment, as well!
- Waiters, waitresses and bartenders aren't the only ones who rely on tips as a major portion of their income, though. For example, for the 800,000 barbers, beauticians and cosmetologists employed in the U.S., 39 percent of their income comes from tips. Taxi drivers, who number 176,000, are another gratuity-reliant working group, and count on tips as 25 percent of their wages.
- Each of these fields is expected to grow, too. The number of barbers/beauticians are expected to increase 15 percent, taxi drivers are expected to grow 20 percent, and food service workers should expand 25 percent by 2010.
- With such rapid growth in these employment fields, which are highly reliant on gratuities to constitute such large portions of earnings, the need, request and sales of the "Dan Gar Talking Tip Jar" can be just as high and rapidly growing.
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