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Servers in pigtails earn more tips. It’s creeping them out.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | September 28, 2022 | Samantha Chery, The Washington Post

Posted on 09/28/2022 5:25:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Before her third consecutive double shift at a pizzeria last year, Grace Velez pulled her hair, which fell past her waist, into pigtails. Ms. Velez says she was used to inappropriate comments from customers, but what she experienced that day shocked her.

Regulars who usually never tipped put money in the pizzeria’s tip jar. A few older men winked at Ms. Velez, 21, as they dropped in cash. Another man, who Ms. Velez guessed was in his 30s, tried to flirt with her for 10 minutes before asking her whether she was a high school student.

About halfway through her shift, the University of North Florida student began to suspect that it was her pigtails that made her tips double. She typically made $45 to $75 in tips during double shifts, but she earned $140 that day. On a whim, she made a TikTok about what had happened.

“It’s something that you notice, and then you never unsee it,” Ms. Velez said. “It drew a lot of attention to the fact that young women are definitely fetishized.”

The TikTok post was viewed 1.4 million times, and comments streamed in from others who had similar experiences.

“i do it because it’s such an easy hairstyle when i forgot to put up my hair but i’m always getting hit on by older men and now it makes sense,” one commenter wrote.

“Wait this makes me nervous I didn’t think ab that one time I wore two braid pigtails cuz I was running late and got a 15 dollar tip that night????” said another.

When Bella Woodard saw Ms. Velez’s TikTok and others commenting about how “tiptails” brought in extra cash, Ms. Woodard decided to try it herself.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: crap; creeps; districtofcolumbia; harassment; jeffbezos; noitisnt; nonsense; perverts; pigtails; pua; redpill; samanthachery; sexualization; sloots; tips; totalbs; waitresses; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; women
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To: heartwood

I can’t remember the last time I saw a male defendant in a Peter Pan collar or a pussy bow blouse, though. :-)

As for the pigtails, there may be a tie-in with Japanese anime. Anime creeps me out.


61 posted on 09/28/2022 8:07:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Pontiac
Mary Ann or Ginger? What say you Gentlemen?

Mary Ann. Ginger would be high maintenance.

62 posted on 09/28/2022 8:08:51 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! The Gestapo closes ranks.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

$60/day in tips typically. That is $8/hour. Is that factored in to the poor low minimum wage workers? $15/hour minimum plus $8/hour tips = $23/hour or $45,000 per year to sling pizza.


63 posted on 09/28/2022 8:16:32 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Long hair inna restaurant is a health hazard. Look at the guys in the back — they are wearing nets.

Pigtails and braids look cute, and are healthier. If some guy tips them, fine. If someone thinks that is a sign of predatory behavior, they are probably ugly.


64 posted on 09/28/2022 8:22:56 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: riverrunner

*** Very friendly good looking servers even get better tips. ***

I guess I met the first criteria back in my cocktail waitress days. But not the 2nd criteria, and my lack of tips compared to friendly girls showed it.

Customer drops napkin on purpose so he can goose the waitress.
Friendly waitress: “Oh, you naughty Rooster. I better keep an eye on you.”
Sockmonkey waitress: “I’m not picking that up. Pick it up yourself you pervert bastard.”

Once a customer put his hand on my belt buckle. Automatic reaction: I stabbed him through his hand with my very sharp pencil. Yep, all the way through it.
He was shocked. “You bastard, you stabbed me. I’m going to have you arrested.”
Sockmonkey waitress: “You touched my belt buckle.”
My boss, a great guy, threw him out.


65 posted on 09/28/2022 8:28:44 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: Pontiac
Dawn was definitely pin up material

In working with her, I was very surprised that she was single! We chatted about how I had a mutual friend in Russell Johnson on Bainbridge Island and she gushed "Oh, I so would have married him! We were always best friends!" I thought it was a very special thing to hear as, when I was a kid, I thought their characters should have married. Ha!

66 posted on 09/28/2022 8:37:25 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: ExTxMarine

Ha ha ha!

Luckily, Natalie had Dawn to take care of her at the very end. It was nice to learn how most of the actors were as close as the characters.


67 posted on 09/28/2022 8:41:29 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“because it’s such an easy hairstyle when i forgot to put up my hair...”

Sure, because pulling your hair into 2 pigtails that you have to make sure look even is much easier than just pulling it into one ponytail.


68 posted on 09/28/2022 9:25:07 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Pearls Before Swine

See, nowadays they got “water bras” so even the non-busty waitresses can get those “cleavage” bonus tips.


69 posted on 09/28/2022 9:27:08 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Link to the TikTok video
70 posted on 09/28/2022 9:33:09 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
Then, in 2014, I directed Dawn Wells in a Breast Cancer Awareness PSA.

Dawn was living in Driggs and came to Pocatello to shop for a new SUV. She expressed an interest in an ice blue 2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid at Courtesy Ford. My wife was interested in the same vehicle. We purchased it that afternoon and heard the Dawn Wells connection as we were doing the paperwork.

71 posted on 09/28/2022 9:34:49 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
The servers at my local Garcia's are paid $3/hour plus tips. They really depend on tips for their income.
72 posted on 09/28/2022 9:38:15 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just when they serve liberals?


73 posted on 09/28/2022 9:44:04 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: KevinB

That was uncalled for!!! It’s lunchtime here.

(I lol’d anyhow.)


74 posted on 09/28/2022 9:51:38 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Mythbusters did a show where they had a woman name Kari Byron put on different sized padding under her shirt.
The bigger they were the bigger the tips....

Do Larger Breasts Equal Bigger Tips? | MythBusters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YJ91FKZHI0


75 posted on 09/28/2022 11:31:29 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What a shocker. Cute girls get bigger tips!


76 posted on 09/28/2022 11:47:55 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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Maybe she normally looks like a slob and the pigtails were a big improvement? But let’s not consider other factors. Let’s use it as an opportunity to male-bash.


77 posted on 09/28/2022 12:56:09 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: minnesota_bound
Do Larger Breasts Equal Bigger Tips?

Do shop teachers get tips for the holidays?

78 posted on 09/28/2022 1:00:29 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: sockmonkey

MY wife was a waitress for 40 plus years.

Never in a place that served alcohol.

But I heard lots of stories.


79 posted on 09/28/2022 1:19:29 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: BlackbirdSST
Mary Ann. Ginger would be high maintenance

Probably true

But I was considering attractiveness.

80 posted on 09/28/2022 2:07:34 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritI)
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