"Vhy tank you, doktor!"
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 ...
Will be making a visit when I go to Denver!
"Vhy tank you, doktor!"
Oddly, ya never hear that word used anymore. Wonder why?
“Product of Dow-Corning, Inc.”
Yeah, whoever came up with them was WAYYYY more derving of a Noble Prize than BHusseinObama.
Though most customers say they reward service, Lynn reports that quality of service has less than a 2-percent effect on the actual tip.How did they determine "quality of service?" Hopefully they did something other than just ask the waitress.
....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,”Was there any attempt to breakdown the tipping by the customers gender? Are the female customers equally guilty here?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I think that’s Audrey Hepburn, not Jackie Kennedy. The impressively ample blonde is Jane Mansfield.
SnakeDoc
Comments? I can’t find any comments on this thread - just photos. And the fact I replied to a comment is irrelevant.
I prefer the real stuff. Its QUALITY as much as QUANTITY.
Thanks Snake Doc!
LOL...The only tip that freak would ever get...an ovary?
Actually, it is Sophia Loren
Mandatory, of course.
Like mandatory "charity" (our pathological welfare system) this cannot work and will not end well.
Personally, I will not ever patronize an establishment that institutes this policy; I do realize that the activists will campaign energetically for a local state or federal law to make it a crime not to pay the mandatory "gratuity," and I have been to Europe, where the practice is quite common, but there are ways around that, too.
Losers everywhere.
SEIU in aprons.
I hate unions, I hate coercion and I hate euphemisms.
I think the federal ADA act is a good thing but I am eternally hostile to people with mental health issues ending up as elected officials, or as academics with an obsessive compulsion to run the tiniest details of all our lives; and of course, all our choices.
I presume it was an “in-advance” tip.
Sophia is not amused ...
Sounds like the place to go if you want an inexpensive saline implant.
>> Actually, it is Sophia Loren
Damn. I always get those two confused. Pretty sure I’m right about the busty blonde though. Haha.
New study! I’d bet guys are better at remembering large-breasted women.
SnakeDoc
My mistake, I thought it was Jackie and Ms. Monroe.
No apology necessary ... apparently I was wrong too. Its Sofia Loren, not Audrey Hepburn.
I remembered the busty one right, though.
SnakeDoc
I'll second that. Another loser in life's lottery, eh?
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