Get the Story! (What are we celebrating today?)

[Red_Dazes]

...one of my friends invited me to her "I'm NO longer a Virgin" dinner party at an upscale restaurant... when she was 16. *shrugs* it was relatively disturbing.

[AnaKhouri]

We generally have two reasons for going out:

1. I got home from work and was too tired to cook.

2. We ran out of food.

[DesignFox]

We generally have two reasons for going out:

1. I got home from work and was too tired to cook.

2. We ran out of food.

Those used to be the two primary reasons I went out for food.

Either that or because I am just plain lazy.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Sorry but that new policy of yours is terrible. Unless I need them involved for some reason (say to help with a birthday celebration), a restaurant has no business knowing why I chose to dine there.

If you asked me that, I would just say "it's for a personal reason" and leave it at that. Why do companies feel that intruding in their customers lives will help boost business?

[PepperElf]

Wouldn't pie be more appropriate?

Canolli!

it's for a personal reason"

or just make up weird crap just for fun.
"I got acquitted!"
"I escaped alien abduction!"
"I'm celebrating my first assassination job for Bad Horse."

[Mnemjian]

I can see some SC somewhere getting all pissed because "IT'S NONE OF YER DURN BIZNESS!!!"

If somebody asked a couple at a nice restaurant, the girl could answer "cause he wants to get laid." With a straight face of course. I mean, it's usually true right?

[Ironclad Alibi]

"Get the Story!" is one of the newer initiatives from corporate on how to improve customer service. Each server is required to ask why the guests chose to dine-out ... What's the occasion? What are we celebrating this evening?

Okay. Other entries?

I have to know which fine eating establishment is asking this question so I can give them some of my answers.

1. I'm hungry.

2. It's a void moon.

3. Yogi Bear stole my pic-a-nic basket.

4. I don't have one, can I use yours?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

3. Yogi Bear stole my pic-a-nic basket.

Permanently borrowed, in case I ever eat at this restaurant.

[friendofjimmyk]

Oh. My. God. I am so glad I no longer work at restaurants. I used to hate with a burning passion of the fire from three hells any kind of dumbass promotion or saying or sales pitch that any restaurant I worked for made me say. I ESPECIALLY HATED liquor promotions and contest. How many Presidente Margaritas can you sell? Me - NONE you fuck twats.

I am of the firm belief that people go out to eat and relax and enjoy a nice evening out. I don't want to try to upsell them shit they don't need. I don't want to push alcohol on them (even though I was quite the lush myself at the time) and I most CERTAINLY would not want to pry into their business as to why they were gracing the establishment with their presence. If its really a special occasion, they'd tell you - then they'd want you to sing Tante Agore A te (carrabba's - best wishes in Italian)

OT - I worked the evening of 9/11. My bone-headed manager thought it'd be a brillant idea to get the entire crew on that evening - servers, bartenders, hostesses, and cooks together to sing a "full house tante". (Again, "best wishes" in Italian) He was immediately shot down and nearly kicked in the teeth.