| ## A Waiter's Tips |
| The following description was retrieved from Kaggle page. |
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| Food servers’ tips in restaurants may be influenced by many |
| factors, including the nature of the restaurant, size of the party, and table |
| locations in the restaurant. Restaurant managers need to know which factors |
| matter when they assign tables to food servers. For the sake of staff morale, |
| they usually want to avoid either the substance or the appearance of unfair |
| treatment of the servers, for whom tips (at least in restaurants in the United |
| States) are a major component of pay. |
| In one restaurant, a food server recorded the following data on all cus- |
| tomers they served during an interval of two and a half months in early 1990. |
| The restaurant, located in a suburban shopping mall, was part of a national |
| chain and served a varied menu. In observance of local law, the restaurant |
| offered to seat in a non-smoking section to patrons who requested it. Each |
| record includes a day and time, and taken together, they show the server’s |
| work schedule. |
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| **Acknowledgements** |
| The data was reported in a collection of case studies for business statistics. |
| Bryant, P. G. and Smith, M (1995) Practical Data Analysis: Case Studies in Business Statistics. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin Publishing |
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| The dataset is also available through the Python package Seaborn. |
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