what is the hot waitress economic index 
the hot waitress economic index is an offensive and dubious economic indicator that counts the number of attractive people working as servers according to what we will refer to as the attractive server index the higher the number of good looking servers the weaker the state of the economy the questionable assumption is that attractive individuals don t have trouble finding higher paying jobs during good times in the economy according to the indicator high paying jobs are more difficult to get during tough economic times a higher number of attractive people will therefore be forced to work in service industry jobs the theory would seem to disregard employee skills qualifications or experience the attractive server index was first articulated by hugo lindgren in an article for new york magazine lindgren was an american magazine and newspaper writer and editor at the time he has gone into hollywood production not economics or academia 