On Monday, Shetty was answering phones at the front desk of his motel in central Arizona.
Other teachers refused to leave their drivers' licenses at the front desk in exchange for a bathroom key.
She did not seem shocked by his deceit, and she offered a functioning credit card at the front desk.
He left careful instructions at the front desk: wake-up call at 10 a.m.
When we checked in, the woman at the front desk asked us which newspaper we wanted in the morning.
This man was asking about me at the front desk of our hotel.
He said hotel policy requires that people visiting hotel guests leave identification at the front desk, and depart by 7 a.m.
For the 18 to 44 bracket, 36% said they would favour an automated kiosk over a clerk at the front desk, whereas only 19% of those aged 45 and older said the same.
"You can have the nicest gym, but if the person at the front desk is rude and inattentive, then you don't really have a sense of a tie to the building, " Davis said.
Last May, in a fit of bleary-eyed jet-lag, I made the mistake of checking into a hotel without running through the standard list of questions I normally ask at the front desk to ensure I get a good room.
At the front desk of the Laventura, a disdainful blond woman provided her with a handful of devices for entry into her new life: apartment and mailbox keys, garage-gate remote, car tag, a code for accessing inner sanctums bearing keypads.
At the next playgroup, I asked the lady at the front desk to pass my e-mail address on to her. (By the way, Mary isn't her real name -- I changed it to prevent scaring her off.) I was beet red as I walked Kylie toward the subway station, and was doing frenetic hop run behind the stroller.
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The fact that no one at the resort front desk and only one of the pro shop staff knew of its existence was emblematic of the overall service experience.
"They will have to leave a message at the hotel front desk, " he says.
Ms Baldwin's mother, Tina Baldwin, had begun working at the clinic's front desk earlier and was also given the responsibly of administering drugs.
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While working the front desk at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto in 1994, she met Mark Gordon, an up-and-coming Hollywood producer.
At the Four Seasons, a front desk clerk confirmed the influx.
Setting off with empty stomachs, my boyfriend and I asked the front desk at our hotel for directions, but the clerk raised her eyebrows in alarm.
The front desk at the hotel said that in May, the Government ruled that all shops and vendors had to use a cash register and issue a receipt.
When we got back after dark, and came through the front door, Grumbles was at his desk and shot us a dark glance.
The prospect of sitting at a desk (probably in front of a computer), with only a thin partition separating you from a sea colleagues is sometimes too much to bear.
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