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Guide on Providing Excellent Customer Service: Before, During and After The Meal

7 Shifts

You may serve the best food on the block, but if your restaurant doesn't match its dishes with plausible customer service, your customers may never come back. That's why it's important to provide an outstanding dining experience from the second your customer's enter your restaurant, till the moment they leave.

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THE INTER-DEPENDANCE OF BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY RESTAURANTS

Culinary Cues

The stores were empty, and restaurant service staff were staring out windows from the vantage of unfilled seats. One of the most difficult tasks that any restaurateur or chef faces is convincing a customer to walk through the door for the first or twentieth time.

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10 Inspirational Hospitality Industry Stories During COVID-19

Social Hospitality

The hospitality industry has been hit hard, and it can often be difficult to see silver linings in immense uncertainty and tragic circumstances. Nevertheless, some brands have demonstrated how to be good to their customers, associates, healthcare providers, and communities during this time. LGO Hospitality: Raising Money for the Team.

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THE HANDSHAKE OF THE HOST DETERMINES THE FLAVOR OF THE ROAST

Culinary Cues

How we greet and welcome people into our fold does have an impact on the quality of the product and experience we offer. Customers would like up, sometimes around the block, hoping for a seat in her rather small restaurant where she featured, what we called – blue plate specials. This love is what we call “hospitality”.

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Customers Demand Authentic Hospitality Experiences - Every time

Future Food

Customers Demand Authentic Hospitality Experiences - Every time Let’s start off by saying that commercial hospitality is everywhere we look. We are looking for the same thing – an authentic and positive food and beverage experience. From our morning coffee to our brunch on the weekend. Hello Beasty, Auckland.

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CHARGING FOR BREAD -SERIOUSLY?

Culinary Cues

Now the latest insult to the business of restaurant hospitality and any attempt to justify value is charging for bread. In fact, our business is based on the concept of gathering in a special place where service with a smile was the obvious complement to “breaking bread”. Great hospitality is common sense.

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META BOFINGER’S RESTAURANT SECRET

Culinary Cues

Long before the restaurant chains of today, decades prior to the birth of fine dining, experience dining, and molecular gastronomy, there were neighborhood cafes that were part of small communities across the country. Full-service restaurants would later refer to this as a Table d’hote selection.