Keep the Change

Dublanica follows up his New York Times bestseller Waiter Rant with a look at tipping, a large yet rarely examined part of the American economy. The book's approach has been compared to the work of A.J. Jacobs and Michael Moore.

Dublanica, who writes online as "the Waiter," admits he is a clueless tipper. He sets out to become an expert on gratuities, travelling from restaurants to casinos to strip clubs and other places to see what to leave and how tipping actually works day to day.

The result is a candid, often funny collection of episodes, some of them painfully awkward, that show the customs of tipping in practice. Readers interested in the service industry or everyday money etiquette will find much here.