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"Overweight waiters may become the norm (Picture: Alamy)\nIf you start noticing waiters are getting larger don’t be surprised &#8211; apparently we buy more food from people who are overweight.\nThat means restaurants may start hiring more rotund employees if you believe the study from Tim Döring and Brian Wansink.\n‘Diners may order and eat more food and beverages in the presence of a heavy person because a heavy person sets a social norm,’ they wrote in Environment and Behavior – a scientific journal.\n\t\n\t\n\tMORE : Government responds to petition to ban Donald Trump from UK\n\t\n\t\nThe academics came to this conclusion after their team visited 60 restaurants and watched 497 interactions between waiters and customers.\nThe researchers noticed more food and alcohol were ordered when the server had a higher body mass index (BMI), which is the measure of weight compared to height.\nThe likelihood of ordering more items increased by four when the waiter had a BMI over 25, which is unhealthy depending on how much of it is fat or muscle.\nThe report was published on Monday.\nDöring is based at University of Jena, in Germany, and Wansink works at Cornell University, in New York.\n\t\n\t\n\tMORE : Warehouse full of discounted goods is bargain hunter’s paradise\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\tMORE : Comedian who came out as a trans woman reverts back to live as a man"
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