{"id":5898,"date":"2012-09-07T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2012-09-06T22:01:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T02:01:49","slug":"what-your-waiter-knows-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-your-waiter-knows-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Your Waiter Knows About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090712_0059_WhatYourWai1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you sit down for a meal at a restaurant, the waiter might know more about you than you think writes Susanne Craig:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In an effort to provide personalized service, more and more restaurants are creating a database of information about your preferences.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>These include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Where you like to sit<\/li>\n<li>Special dates (anniversaries, birthdays etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Hard or soft butter<\/li>\n<li>Pepsi or Coke<\/li>\n<li>Sparkling or Still water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This information isn&#8217;t always used to help the customer. If you were a camper the last time and stayed at your table for a long time after you finished your meal, your waiter might seat you in an uncomfortable area to encourage you to leave.<\/li>\n<li>Restaurants have to be careful with the information. It&#8217;s no good to know the name of the wife of the guest. He might, after all, be dining with his mistress.<\/li>\n<li>But computers aren&#8217;t everything. To provide top service a human touch is required. One manager reads and watches the news to know if potential guests might have had a bad announcement or quarter. He knows then how to approach the customer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the different codes used to describe you and why you had better hope you&#8217;re a PX and not a HWC click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/05\/dining\/what-restaurants-know-about-you.html?hpw&amp;pagewanted=all\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/05\/dining\/what-restaurants-know-about-you.html?hpw&amp;pagewanted=all\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/09\/assorted-links-556.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you sit down for a meal at a restaurant, the waiter might know more about you than you think writes Susanne Craig: In an effort to provide personalized service, more and more restaurants are creating a database of information about your preferences. These include: Where you like to sit Special dates (anniversaries, birthdays etc.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090712_0059_WhatYourWai1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8371,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/8371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}