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 ...
I remember a lot of large-breasted women with perfect clarity. I just can't recall their names.
The real reason that Sophia was glancing at Jane like that is not revealed by this particular photo. Other photos of that event show very clearly that Jane’s top was not hiding her darker assets as she moved about.
Irrelevant trivia. You remember the high points.
SnakeDoc
NAW!!! Couldn’t be! LOL Do you think I could get a grant to prove that waitresses who wear mini-skirts get more money than those who wear skirts to their knees, or wear black tuxedo pants???
I can’t believe they actually funded a study like this. Do they really need “proof”? This is common sense (and common knowledge among anyone who has ever waitressed, or even worked in a restaurant or bar at any time in their lives!!!)
I should also add that providing GOOD SERVICE to your customers with a friendly smiling face outweighs large breasts, AND a short skirt!!!
As in the case of climate studies, we need to see the raw data!
Even that famous photo shows a "darker asset". I noticed that the first time I saw the pic years ago.
Funny how the culture has changed so much since my childhood. If Sophia and Jane were modern day celebs in the same scenario, Sophia would hardly notice those assets. If she did, she'd probably just smile.
Damn, you're good at this. Shame you're not getting paid federal grant dollars for your insight.
Sad fact of life. They droop and you only have the memories ...
That's true for me, and I'm a fool for a curvy woman in a short skirt.
Yoi!
A smiling face and large breasts would be more ideal.
SnakeDoc
The blonde is Jayne Mansfield, but the brunette is Sophia Loren. Not that she was ever lacking in natural resources, either...
Yes we’ve been corrected. Over and over and over again.
There was one of those in the Hotel my daughters were at for an anime convention... Too bad all the girls there looked like they were starving themselves so they looked good in the halter-halfshirts, and hip-hugger minis. Even my husband was shocked at the small amount of actual fabric, the the low-cut tied shirts. At least some of them were wearing a sports bra under the white shirt... But not all. They are about >< that close to being a “Gentleman’s Club”.
I see other FReepers have cleaved this mystery already - I’ll try harder to keep abreast of the thread next time. :-)
Must have been a doozy!
;<)
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