tsmith1315
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Yes it was quite fuzzy at first, but the intention became clear with an enormous amount of training and follow-up over the next couple of years.
Why do restaurant waiters suddenly use "we" when they mean "you?"
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Yes it was quite fuzzy at first, but the intention became clear with an enormous amount of training and follow-up over the next couple of years.
If I heard "Welcome to XXX" I'd think I'd gone into the wrong store. (I meant to go to that one after I got my new glasses.)
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Well, it’s good they could finally read the writing on the wall and stop flailing around blindly.
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I don’t mind being greeted when I walk into a store. It doesn’t need to be a ridiculous, over-the-top greeting, but a “Hello. Welcome to the store. Let me know if I can help you find anything.” is nice.
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I run inventories for dollar stores. Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, all greet customers when they walk in and have as long as I can remember. (Been doing it for 6 years.)
Some places take greetings to highly customized levels:
dr wogz
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I don't mind the greeting as I walk into a store. it's the hovering that creeps me out.. (and not because I am an old guy in a trench coat in Victoria Secrets..) Or the obviously eager sales persons who are jockeying for your sale / their commission..
hball55
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I had an Iranian woman call me honey one day, at an AM/PM market in Northern California.
. I actually felt pretty good walking out the door.
Marc- Now since you have started this thread you have me paying attention to what the waiters and waitresses are saying.
Please report any interesting findings.
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Please report any interesting findings.
Recently, the guy at Chick Fil A said, "You're welcome, have a nice day" when I said thanks.
I sure hope he didn't get fired.
I used to go to hooters a couple of times a week in the 00's; they have customer service down, lol.
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I think they have really studied and mastered ALL of the tip-maximizing techniques. I was never a fan of the menu or drinks, so I only went to the local one a few times, but I remember having a fun time.
Of their drinks I am not a fan. The last time I was in one, which is quite some years ago, their hot wings were very good and their fried clams were some of the best. (Not as good as this one place I've been to a couple of times on Route 1A along the New Hampshire coastline in an expanded old shack. But I digress.)
Interesting reading. I'll get back and finish it later.
I'm thinking "stach wick". Sounds British, but I don't know. I'm trying to sound it out as I was taught in 1960s grade school. No intent all to offend.
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Jim
As the nac mac feegle say, ne problemo.
I’d be inclined to mark that as correct, although there are a number of ways that people go after the sound the “ch” makes. A lot of people assume it follows the German rules and has a hard K-like sound as in “Reich”, more rarely others go for a more literal English-inspired pronunciation and say a softer “ch” as in “Charlie”.
It is in fact the softer one, as it is Anglicized Polish in origin, changed around the turn of the 20th century when my great-great-grandfather arrived in America from Posen, then an ethnically Polish region of the German Empire.
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We've about beaten this dead horse to death. 
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Why do restaurant waiters suddenly use "we" when they mean "you?"
ask em how much the "them" part of "we" is footing the bill.
ask em how much the "them" part of "we" is footing the bill.
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When I said "Don't even..." I was thinking along these lines.
www.cnn.com
A public university in Ohio will pay a professor $400,000 after disciplining him for refusing to use a transgender student's pronouns | CNN
Shawnee State University initially recommended putting a formal warning on Nicholas Meriwether's file.
www.cnn.com
I have heard we being used for a long time and I have used it in my customer service days when I was a student. I have no issuer with it.
hball55
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When I said "Don't even..." I was thinking along these lines.
A public university in Ohio will pay a professor $400,000 after disciplining him for refusing to use a transgender student's pronouns | CNN
Shawnee State University initially recommended putting a formal warning on Nicholas Meriwether's file.
I agree with the settlement.
Brilliant! Please, as a one-time server who used this, could you please explain the rationale behind it? Does it seem friendlier or something?
And if that's the reason (a definite "if") do you have evidence that it seems friendlier to the customer, or does it just seem friendlier to the service provider?
I’m guessing somebody crunched the numbers regarding spending and tipping habits.
I'll take that bet. I think it's just a way to (try to) seem cool. If anyone thinks it's inceasing tips, I bet that's based on a small set of anecdotal evidence at best.
I think it does and back than, 1970's , I just copied what I heard.
To me it seems friendly as a customer. Now I am.just a 60 plus year old man.
