Your Favorite Technique to Get Good Restaurant Service.

[pneu-engine]

Hi Everybody, :lol

Here we have a thread to list your tips and techniques to ensure good service when eating out.

Here are mine. :lol

1. Develop a good rapport with several restaurants that you know will give decent service. I.E. We get known there by lots of gentleness and kindness on our part.

a. A healthy tip with a tract.

b. Sincere compliments to the server and to the cooks.

c. Sincere smiles of friendliness extended to all the staff with whom we come in contact::: The hotess, the servers, the cashiers, etc.

d. We even write on the back of the receipt a short note telling how much we enjoyed the food and service.

I never cease to be amazed how far this goes to get really great service the next time. Truth be told it isn't the great service that we are seeking by doing all of this. No, no, no, no. We want to present our LORD and Saviour in the finest manner possible because we just gave those people a tract. :lol

[kevinmiller]

Tell them I'm Al Capone's second cousin, once removed.

[Madeline]

Unfortunately we live in a superficial world, so if you're dressed like a vagabond then expect poor service. The waiters and waitresses will assume they'll be getting a big tip if you dress nice or look good, since poor people don't give out large tips. So look good and you'll get good service, but with me good restaurant service comes naturally :cool ...except on rare occasions! :frog

[HappyChristian]

Hi Everybody, :lol

Here we have a thread to list your tips and techniques to ensure good service when eating out.

Here are mine. :lol

1. Develop a good rapport with several restaurants that you know will give decent service. I.E. We get known there by lots of gentleness and kindness on our part.

a. A healthy tip with a tract.

b. Sincere compliments to the server and to the cooks.

c. Sincere smiles of friendliness extended to all the staff with whom we come in contact::: The hotess, the servers, the cashiers, etc.

d. We even write on the back of the receipt a short note telling how much we enjoyed the food and service.

I never cease to be amazed how far this goes to get really great service the next time. Truth be told it isn't the great service that we are seeking by doing all of this. No, no, no, no. We want to present our LORD and Saviour in the finest manner possible because we just gave those people a tract. :lol

We do the same thing...and for the same reason! When we put that tract down, we do not want the waitress to think Christians are cheapskates, so we will give a good tip - even if the service was less than what we liked.

I remember a few years ago, our preacher mentioned from the pulpit that they got a call from an area restaurant. The waitress had gotten a tract - and no tip. Because the church and pastor's name was on it, they assumed he was the one who left the tract. One of the servers called to complain to him. He was really upset because it linked Christianity with ill manners and was a bad testimony.

[pneu-engine]

I remember a few years ago, our preacher mentioned from the pulpit that they got a call from an area restaurant. The waitress had gotten a tract - and no tip. Because the church and pastor's name was on it, they assumed he was the one who left the tract. One of the servers called to complain to him. He was really upset because it linked Christianity with ill manners and was a bad testimony.

IA guy that used to work in the bay next to mine said that his sister was a server in a restaurant wherein she had to work Sunday. She said she hated to see the church-crowd come in because typically, they expected the best service but gave little tips, or none at all.

I really like what my daughter says::::

We don't tip according to the service, but rather according to our testimony.

Many times I'll be in my raggedy old work clothes, but because the servers know me, they still give give me great service. :lol

[Madeline]

There's nothing wrong with dressing in raggedy old work clothes if you just got off of work and if you know the waitresses. But if you don't, then it just looks like you're really poor and smell! With some of these restaurants, the first thing they do is look at your attire.

[Chelle]

With some of these restaurants, the first thing they do is look at your attire.

My husband and I don't go to restaurants like that. First of all we don't have the money. Secondly, the food isn't that much better than at the lower-priced restaurants, but they give you less of it.

PE, you and your wife have raised your daughter very well! :thumb

[IM4given]

IA guy that used to work in the bay next to mine said that his sister was a server in a restaurant wherein she had to work Sunday. She said she hated to see the church-crowd come in because typically, they expected the best service but gave little tips, or none at all.

I really like what my daughter says::::

We don't tip according to the service, but rather according to our testimony.

Many times I'll be in my raggedy old work clothes, but because the servers know me, they still give give me great service. :lol

I am glad that you said "church crowd" and not Christians who came in on Sundays. Christians ought not to make others work on Sundays (see Working on Sunday - other thread.)

I do not eat out often, but when I do it is a real treat - the kind we mark the date on the Calendar and get all dressed up for - like a birthday dinner or something of that sort. We do not take any of the staff for granted, and we let them know if the food is good, the service is wonderful, and so forth. Those folks have to stand on their feet and work really hard all day for a bunch of people who do not even appreciate it, or worse yet, treat them as their inferior social status!

[pneu-engine]

:amen: :thumb

[chev1958]

I simply tell them that if they keep my iced tea filled, they'll be happy they did. They usually do, and they usually are (and, of course, a tract is included with that tip).

Mitch

[Randy]

With 3 kids, any restaurant where you don't pick your food up at the counter is a rarity. The restaurants that we are known at, we usually get good service, because we are known for tipping well.

We don't use credit cards, but if you do, a cash tip is much more noticed. The credit card companies take between 3 and 5% for use of their 'service'. The restaurant eats their part of that, but the percentage comes out of the tip also.

NEVER leave a tract if you are not tipping well - I will usually put the cash in the tract. A few places will automatically add the 15% gratuity if you have more than 5 people, etc. If they do that to me, that's all they get (fleshly, I know).

At an especially nice restaurant for a very special occasion, you can always pass the host(ess) some cash as you are being seated. Don't take it out of your tip at the end, and a little goes a LONG way.

[Anon]

We always try to be pleasant, and avoid complaints unless something is truly wrong...and then we return the food with an apologetic attitude. Sometimes if a waitress seems harried and stressed we try to ease her by saying "long day?" and being sympathetic.

We do have three young kids so sometimes I think its harder to "impress" a waitress when we are busy caring for our kids but we usually get decent service. The only times we don't is if a restaurant is too busy and the waitress is not good at multitasking...or a few times where the waitress takes a long time even getting to our table at all. Neither of which situation could really be changed by anything we say or do.

We train our children to ask for things politely though, our 6 yo likes to order and ask for refills but he knows to call the waitress "ma'am" and say please and thank you.

[Psalms18_28]

well-behaved children help with good service too. They can tell that you have been to alot of resturants if your children know how to act in resturants. Therefore, they know they will be tipped fairly. Bad manners in both adults and children tell them that they will get a very rude tips too.


I never really had any bad service. I have had people who forgotten our table because they were so busy, but they were alway quick to apologize. After that, we had no problem getting service.