Highly tipped waitstaff.
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 ...
Shouldn’t the out-of-shape waitresses be able to compensate for their lack of looks with their increased knowledge of dessert trays?
ELAINE: Anyway there’s at least four of them, and they’re all huge. And one is bigger than the next. It’s like a Russ Meyer movie.
FRED: Who’s Russ Meyer?
ELAINE: Oh, he’s this guy who made these terrible movies in the 70’s with these kinds of women. He’s obsessed. He’s obsessed with breasts. That’s hard to say.
FRED: Anyway, go on.
ELAINE: Um... Well, there’s not really much more to tell. He was looking for waitresses, and I went in to apply for the job. And, he looked me up and down and he rejected me.
FRED: (to a guy in the hall at the water cooler machine) Paul. Come in for a second. I want you to listen to this.
PAUL: (to Elaine) Hi.
ELAINE: Hi.
FRED: Paul, woman here claims there’s a restaurant on the West side that’s only hiring large-breasted women.
PAUL: (to Elaine) Really?
Here at FR, we look down on cleavage!
How does this make it past any kind of peer review?
You are something even more important than the Boss, you are the “customer”
Are you kidding? The other professors were lining up to review the findings.
I like legs more, which probably leaves me out of this “discussion”...
“Larger Breasts Pay Off for Waitresses, Study by (Cornell) Hotel Professor Finds”
It gives you something to look at when you’re talking to them.
What study is next? Is water really wet?
No, the next study is to determine if bears poop in the woods.
Who paid to fund this study of the obvious.
LMAO!!
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