When my daughter was a teenager, I used to tell her that if she ever wanted to earn some extra money as a waitress, to work at a restaurant where they serve lobster, not hot dogs.
Delivering two hot dogs on a tray is about the same effort as delivering two lobster rolls, yet the cost of the hot dogs may be $10 vs. $60 for the lobster rolls. A 20% tip for delivering the hot dogs is $2, while the 20% tip on lobster rolls would be $12. It doesn’t make sense, but that is the way it is. The compensation variance is not a function of the labor, but the cost of the underlying product.
