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.
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We went there after hearing about them on Rush’s show. They have good food and the kids loved the nurses.. they were so nice LOL.
“Must have been a doozy!”
It was a word for word quote from the “tipping speech” from the movie Resevoir Dogs. I edited the profanity, so I don’t know what the deal was.
Hypnotic
That’s just gross.
Huh...I’m sorry. What?
Big Boob Bump!
Trivia: who is the mother of Law and Order SVU's star Margita Hagarty (who does not appear as endowed as her mom).
Never ceases to amaze how far these “intellectuals” are divorced from reality. Just like most libs/Dims.
*snort* Stating the obvious, I'd say.
The standards are hard to understand at times. I had a post deleted and got a personal chewing out for calling someone a “perpetual adolescent” and a “dipweed.” Apart from that being pretty mild IMO the poster I called that was promoting pedophilia and waxing nostalgic over the statutory rape he experienced in his youth.
It figures she’d be a bowser... and full of envy to boot!
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