Posted on 05/07/2010 7:50:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Prof. Michael Lynn, marketing and tourism, surveyed 374 waitresses about their perceived “sexiness,” breast size and other physical characteristics and correlated these results with the amount of tips the waitresses received.
His results indicate that evolutionary instinct trumps the ideals many patrons profess. Though most customers say they reward service, Lynn reports that quality of service has less than a 2-percent effect on the actual tip.
Instead, he found that waitresses with larger bra sizes received higher tips — as did women with blonde hair and slender bodies.....
Lynn explained that his study could be useful to a potential waitress as it can help gauge her “prospects in the industry.”
“It also informs management decisions about who to hire,” Lynn added, explaining that servers who earn higher tips are more desirable employees because they are likely to stay at their job longer. Higher tips also indicate higher customer approval of the server, and by association, the establishment in general....
Lynn’s results were met with distaste and disappointment from some of his colleagues at the University.
“I am disappointed but not surprised to learn that female servers with larger breasts receive more generous tips,” said Prof. Sherry F. Colb, law, who studies sexual equality.
Colb criticized the tipping system in general as facilitating the kind of discrimination that Lynn uncovered.
“Like the employer who fails to promote an employee because she does not sufficiently conform to the feminine stereotype, restaurant owners share in the blame for utilizing a pay structure that turns unenlightened customers into the ‘boss’ in charge of determining a server’s take-home pay,” she said.
Colb suggested instead that a uniform percentage “gratuity” be charged with each meal.
(Excerpt) Read more at cornellsun.com ...
“Like the employer who fails to promote an employee because she does not sufficiently conform to the feminine stereotype, restaurant owners share in the blame for utilizing a pay structure that turns unenlightened customers into the ‘boss’ in charge of determining a server’s take-home pay,” she said.
Picture of Professor Colb here
No further comment
I’ll be darned.
I gather it was a hands-on study.
I’m now about two times dumber than I was before I started reading this nonsense.
I need a picture of Flounder from the movie Animal House where he is giddy and saying “This is Gonna Be Good!” because that’s exactly how I feel about this thread!
Modern, liberal Feminism was instituted to allow less than attractive women access to the mainstream.
Watta bunch of boobs.
As if this conclusion really needed and academic study?
One thing not mentioned, higher tips means a bigger cut for the owner/operator
What was that about the tips?
Ping.
Yeah, I’ve long forgiven lousy service because the waitress fills out her uniform in a pleasing manner.
Do these so-called feminists ever realize just sexist they are when they come up with this kind of crap?
No tip for her.
How much federal money did they spend for this surprising and unexpected conclusion?
Yet, it's a serious article about a study at an Ivy league university involving economics, psychology and laws on discrimination.
I like to elevate the dialogue sometimes.
Relax, you’re still easily 4 times as smart as the average liberal.
This thread is useless without pictures.
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