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 ...
“in-advance” tip.
Sort of. More of an “anatomical” type of tip.
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Fixed it.
“But Colb’s reaction is classic...”
Indeed.
“Colb suggested instead that a uniform percentage “gratuity” be charged with each meal” should read “Colb suggested that restaurants increase the price of all meals by 15% leaving customers to pay the higher amount regardless of the quality of service.”
What is the standard? Over the years I have seen this board go ever more crude and vulgar. I once had a thread decrying the profanity that is allowed here. Mostly crickets.
I bet this “study” was financed by the taxpayers.
This thread is useless without pictures.
seems to me now days, that the more "hip" or "trendy" the place is, the more likely it will have a high ratio of the Jennine Garaffalo types to anything that resembles good looking, let alone good looking and have a playboy body
Actually ... I just looked up the movies for both Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn, and I don’t think I’ve seen a one of them. Pretty sure they’re in genres I don’t watch much.
There is a point of diminishing returns — but I think that point is closer to Mansfield than Loren.
SnakeDoc
Understood. Thing is, my late wife and Sophia have a lot in common in that area, so maybe I’m just reflecting on the reality I know. LOL
Sophia Loren was great in El Cid with Charlton Heston.
Hmm... so this study was based on perceived sexiness from women who most likely saved up some money to buy bigger body parts because they would make more money with the bigger body parts. Could they, I dunno, also figure out how to correlate attitude or other attributes a customer wants with tips?
I used to pour beer at a sports stadium. I would get tips when I smiled real purdy, flirted a little, and get the foam on the top of the cup just right.
Are tips higher in colder climates?
That's a far more complex social interraction and not subject to a straight-forward test. Part of what these studies do is they attempt to boil away all other factors to test for just one thing. It's not always possible.
Here we have a social interaction between people that we don't expect to know eachother on a personal-level: the customer & the waitress. AND we have a handy measuring-stick -- the size of the tip. Reading how these studies are constructed can be pretty interesting stuff.
LOL! Yeah, but you don't usually take a date to an establishment like that!
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