Rhode Island ranks No. 1 out of all 50 states when it comes to reliance on tipping culture, a new study revealed.
The study, conducted by the researchers at Gourmet Marketing, a New York-based digital marketing and advertising agency specializing in the hospitality industry, particularly hotels, resorts and restaurants, compared the structure of each state's hospitality economy and tipped-wage rules.
"Rhode Island recorded 911.60 waitstaff jobs per 100,000 residents and 100.58 full-service restaurants per 100,000," the study determined. "Both rates were the highest among the five leading states."
The researchers ranked each state by eight weighted measures of tipped jobs, hospitality businesses and tipped-wage rules.
"Measures were normalized to a score out of 100, with higher scores indicating greater structural reliance on tipping," according to the study.
The second most tipping culture-reliant state was Delaware, followed by Nebraska, Wyoming and Wisconsin.
The state that was least tipping culture-reliant turned out to be Washington, with California, Alaska, Oregon and Minnesota rounding out the bottom of the list.
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