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Skills Focus: Describing Dishes

  Last week, the skills focus discussed how to get permission from to recommend food to your guests.  This is an incredibly important skill because it allows you to suggest the best items on your menu to your guests.  This week I am going to address how to make those recommendations more effective.  The key […]

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Skills Focus: Making Recommendations

(Note: This is the first of a new weekly series called “Skills Focus.”  The purpose of these posts is to revisit a skill that has been discussed on this blog.  This will allow you to take a moment and make sure you are using this skill to increase your tips.  Taking the time each week […]

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Announcing Tips²: Tips For Improving Your Tips

It is with a great deal of pride and excitement that I can finally announce the release of my first book: Tips2: Tips For Improving Your Tips.  I have been teasing this big announcement for months and am glad to finally be making it, even though for regular readers it may be akin to Mitt […]

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The Lost Art Of Suggestive Selling

“Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.” –Anonymous   We as a society have really lost the power of subtlety.  It could be because we have lost the patience to unravel it.  We receive far more information on a daily basis than our […]

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How To Memorize Orders

(Note: In yesterdays post I discussed why I feel it is beneficial to memorize orders.  I will not recap to avoid redundancy, which itself if redundant in this post.) I am terrible with names.  Not particularly good with faces either.  I will forget three things every time I take a trip.  I promise I will […]

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