Larger Breasts Pay Off for Waitresses, Study by (Cornell) Hotel Professor Finds

©2010 The Cornell Daily Sun. ^ | May 7, 2010 | By Eliza LaJoie

[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.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

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.

Picture of Professor Colb here

No further comment

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I’ll be darned.

[kabar]

I gather it was a hands-on study.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’m now about two times dumber than I was before I started reading this nonsense.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

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!

[MrB]

Modern, liberal Feminism was instituted to allow less than attractive women access to the mainstream.

[gimme1ibertee]

Watta bunch of boobs.

[Army Air Corps]

As if this conclusion really needed and academic study?

[sniper63]

One thing not mentioned, higher tips means a bigger cut for the owner/operator

[llevrok]

What was that about the tips?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[stylin_geek]

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?

[justlurking]

Instead, he found that waitresses with larger bra sizes received higher tips — as did women with blonde hair and slender bodies.....

[jim_trent]

No tip for her.

[Pollster1]

How much federal money did they spend for this surprising and unexpected conclusion?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

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!

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.

[stylin_geek]

Relax, you’re still easily 4 times as smart as the average liberal.

[WakeUpAndVote]

[gimme1ibertee]

unenlightened customers

LOLOL!!!

[Frantzie]

This thread is useless without pictures.

[Scythian]

Another pervert getting a useless grant that could have gone to actually doing something positive in the world.

[kabar]

Big boobs mean bigger tips.

[RexBeach]

Poor Dr. Colb. Alas, she’s guilty!

[Uncle Miltie]

"Did somebody order the chicken?"

[Hodar]

In a related story, Waiters with a tan and defined 6-pack make more tips than over-weight Waiters.

Somehow this is a shock? Part of the job of a Wait Person is to deliver the product the customer wants in a timely manner, graciously, politely and looking good while you do it only adds to the tip.

[Constitution Day]

TTIUWP (and not of the professor, either. LOL)

[nhoward14]

In other words, this professor got paid to talk to chicks about their boobs.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

“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.”

Dude, you’re bringing me down.

[thefactor]

"Larger Breasts Pay Off for Waitresses Every Woman in the History of the Planet"

There. Fixed it.

[boomop1]

Cornell in the city of evil.

[gimme1ibertee]

ROTFLMAO!!

[WakeUpAndVote]

Did someone say BOOBIES?

[TSgt]

Gah!

[ArrogantBustard]

She’s ugly, and she has never worked in the real world.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

For the life of me, I keep thinking of that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine was trying to shut down a diner for discrimination because all the waitresses looked alike and had huge breasts. She filed a complaint with the EEOC and the found the guys from the EEOC were eating lunch there every day (for, um, investigative purposes, of course). Then, at the end of the episode she found out that the waitresses were all daughters of the owner.

[starlifter]

PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DennisR]

“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.

Request for Professor Colb: Go out and open your own restaurant. Then you can make all the decisions yourself. You can even put up a sign - to which I would adhere - that says “Unenlightened Customers not Allowed.” And, yes, whenever we pay someone for doing something, we are the defacto “boss.” It’s called reality, dear.

[babble-on]

Just think of the number of breast augmentations the grant money could have financed.

[WakeUpAndVote]

How about these fun bags?

[RedMDer]

LOL! The picture’s even funnier with your tag line.

[gimme1ibertee]

Big boobs mean bigger tips.

Yyyyyeah,that's true, I guess....

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Who is getting a bigger tip?

[SnakeDoctor]

(1) Duh.

(2) I should’ve gone into the social sciences. I think I could’ve made a very fulfilling career of breast-related sociological studies. I consider myself something of a connoisseur.

(3) Maybe large-breasted waitresses make the dining experience more enjoyable. The fact that it is appearance-related does not mean that the tip was not related to the enjoyability of the outing. He should do a study of wife’s breast-size and its relation to male marital happiness.

(4) The author suggests a uniform tip. As one would expect from a liberal, he does not indicate whether the purpose is to help the small-breasted, or hurt the large-breasted. Maybe a federally subsidized waitress implant program would be more beneficial.

SnakeDoc

[TChris]

Colb suggested instead that a uniform percentage “gratuity” be charged with each meal.

Yeah, because price fixing works so well and all.

I pay tips purely on quality of service. Many cute, young waitresses have received paltry tips from me because they were inattentive or rude.

Some of the highest tips I've given were to excellent male servers.

[WakeUpAndVote]

PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

__________________

OINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FormerACLUmember]

Lesbian communist law school professor.

[GeronL]

hahahaha

[RatRipper]

After many years of painstaking research, we have concluded that water is wet.

[The_Victor]

"Did somebody order the chicken?"

I think the order was for "rubber."