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Larger Breasts Pay Off for Waitresses, Study by (Cornell) Hotel Professor Finds
©2010 The Cornell Daily Sun. ^ | May 7, 2010 | By Eliza LaJoie

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: anotherstudy; backoffimascientist; breasts; canigetagrant4that; cityofevil; cornell; ithica; napl; study; waitress
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To: SnakeDoctor

You’re kidding, right?

That is Sophia Loren.


121 posted on 05/07/2010 8:35:11 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Nice pic, when did Matthew Modine get a sex change?


122 posted on 05/07/2010 8:35:23 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: MrB
Modern, liberal Feminism was instituted to allow less than attractive women access to the mainstream.

Beached whales, I'm sure, have a role to play in society. It's just that stewardesses and waitresses ain't it. One is a safety issue, the other an appetite killer, not the best inducement for a pleasant meal.

I could suggest counterweights for large cranes, or traffic barriers...

123 posted on 05/07/2010 8:35:37 AM PDT by Publius6961 (10% of muslims, the killer murdering radicals, are "only" 140,000,000 of 'em)
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To: BelegStrongbow

Keep reading, chief. I’ve already been corrected.

SnakeDoc


124 posted on 05/07/2010 8:35:55 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant [...] that even a god-king can bleed.")
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Mmmmmmm, Mommy
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/dennis-hopper-best-performance/b43b2a35d9d25eb96a2eb43b2a35d9d25eb96a2e-52931854433


125 posted on 05/07/2010 8:35:55 AM PDT by tumblindice (Baby went boom boom)
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To: ZULU

“Its QUALITY as much as QUANTITY.”

Quanity has a quality all its own.


126 posted on 05/07/2010 8:37:02 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

127 posted on 05/07/2010 8:38:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: SnakeDoctor

Yep, shoulda done. So, you’re clear on who that lady is, yes? Never make the mistake again, right? And just failing to care one way or the other for the duration I assume?

LOL :D


128 posted on 05/07/2010 8:38:25 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: SnakeDoctor; WakeUpAndVote

SD, I don’t know if WUAV was serious.

Sophia Loren, BTW.


129 posted on 05/07/2010 8:40:15 AM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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To: WakeUpAndVote; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...


130 posted on 05/07/2010 8:40:54 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Just another day in Oceania.)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Looks like Spock’s deep into the Plak Tow.


131 posted on 05/07/2010 8:41:47 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: BelegStrongbow

I was distracted by the big-boobed one. I had to look at the picture four times just to see Ms. Loren/ Hepburn/ Kennedy.

Maybe if she had a bigger rack, I’d have remembered better. Haha.

SnakeDoc


132 posted on 05/07/2010 8:42:07 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant [...] that even a god-king can bleed.")
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To: SnakeDoctor
New study! I’d bet guys are better at remembering large-breasted women.

I like to think of it as preventative therapy for Alzheimers.

133 posted on 05/07/2010 8:42:18 AM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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To: strider44

What on Earth makes you think that joke was appropriate to post on FR?


134 posted on 05/07/2010 8:42:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I could have told’em that without a study...Everybody sort of knows that already. But Colb’s reaction is classic...


136 posted on 05/07/2010 8:43:05 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: SnakeDoctor

S’all right. It’s a pic I have seen many many times, and being something of a Loren fan (she can act, as it turns out), I’ve had an advantage.

And, I figure her amplitude is jusssstt about the extent of what any woman should have. There really is a limit to every good thing, IMHO.


137 posted on 05/07/2010 8:45:17 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: babble-on
Just think of the number of breast augmentations the grant money could have financed.

She could have donated it here: My Free Implants

The best I can tell, this isn't a joke. It might be a scam, though.

138 posted on 05/07/2010 8:46:02 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Men like women with big boobs because of two reason and evolution...

1. They can't run away as fast

2. Their far easier to tip over

These two factor seem increase in direct proportion to boobs size

So the bigger women's boob the easier she was for a man to catch and have sex with her

I think I will get a grant to study this

139 posted on 05/07/2010 8:46:44 AM PDT by tophat9000 (It ain't about Black... It ain't about White...It's about a Red...Trying to take our rights!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

>> “Women are not for decoration”

Classic.


140 posted on 05/07/2010 8:47:10 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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