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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: Southack
Tilted Kilt takes Hooter’s to the next level.

Guys...he's not kidding.

Let the short video load and enjoy...

81 posted on 05/07/2010 8:15:46 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tumblindice
I am a bird watcher myself.

Look at this nice pair of tits.


82 posted on 05/07/2010 8:15:56 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Drill baby, drill!)
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To: SengirV
This story reminds me of some news show I saw where they stuck a hot blonde and a fat tub on the side of the road with a broken down car to see who would attract help quicker. The obvious results were breathlessly reported.
83 posted on 05/07/2010 8:15:58 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Picture of Professor Colb here

No further comment


Oh I’ll comment; Upon seeing the pic I have to believe that the only reason this woman wrote this piece is because she cannot understand the inexplicable reason that men prefer tall stacked blondes over skinny wimmen that resemble an angry chicken.


84 posted on 05/07/2010 8:16:01 AM PDT by Grunthor (Over YOUR dead body!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Elaine Benes knows all about this.


85 posted on 05/07/2010 8:16:14 AM PDT by cydcharisse (`)
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To: traditional1

DAMNIT! You just beat me to it.


86 posted on 05/07/2010 8:16:46 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Drill baby, drill!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

24 posts before a Hooters photo-a little slow today,boys!


87 posted on 05/07/2010 8:17:03 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I would never of imagined that this could be true.


88 posted on 05/07/2010 8:17:20 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: TheThirdRuffian

89 posted on 05/07/2010 8:18:15 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Drill baby, drill!)
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To: Lazamataz

Ping!


90 posted on 05/07/2010 8:19:28 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Drill baby, drill!)
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To: Grunthor
" skinny wimmen that resemble an angry chicken"
That's funny right there, don't care who ya are.


91 posted on 05/07/2010 8:19:58 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: kabar

Yep, hands on study, LOL.

Well, anecdotal evidence seems to prove this out. Most restaurants seem to have attractive girls there.

Heck you have a whole chain, Hooters, which is built around this kind of theme. I’ve never been in Hooters, but, have been told that the food is nothing special. The guys like to go there for other reasons.

I wonder what kinds of tips they get at Hooters? That could be an interesting study.


92 posted on 05/07/2010 8:20:01 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Instead, he found that waitresses with larger bra sizes received higher tips — as did women with blonde hair and slender bodies.....

I guess he didn't bother to consider men who wait on tables. Such an egalitarian professor!

ML/NJ

93 posted on 05/07/2010 8:20:21 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Product of Dow-Corning, Inc.


94 posted on 05/07/2010 8:20:29 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: Southack

had no idea what one was....till you mentioned it

see they have one in Hendersonville


95 posted on 05/07/2010 8:20:40 AM PDT by wardaddy (never been particularly pious but I stand with Franklin Graham...bigtime...you betcha...ya'll)
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To: wardaddy

I’m buying and it’s lunchtime, let’s go!


96 posted on 05/07/2010 8:21:25 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Whenever I see that pic I wonder if JFK was the only Kennedy hittin’ that. Jackie O seems really “taken” by the hot blonde on her left.


97 posted on 05/07/2010 8:21:38 AM PDT by Grunthor (Over YOUR dead body!)
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To: benewton

They have nice legs, too.
98 posted on 05/07/2010 8:21:43 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The List!


99 posted on 05/07/2010 8:22:14 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Drill baby, drill!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Ordinarily, I pop into a thread and make a quick, humorous post, but I believe this subject warrants a more complete examination before I comment.


100 posted on 05/07/2010 8:22:20 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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