If anyone in the city's restaurant economy needs a boost, it might be the wait staff.
Wait staff at restaurants in many countries have certainly grown to depend on tips to supplement their wages.
First, put your camera down, stop accosting the wait staff and pay attention.
The training director at Outback Steakhouse must be pretty cool because the wait staff at Outback are almost always really cool.
The other night, I was in a recently-opened cigar bar in Washington, and immediately noticed something about the wait staff.
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The stories are updated every two minutes to wait staff computers through software developed by Columbia-based Micros and are tailored to Washington readers.
But he also needs to empower the wait staff to sell wines, and holds regular tastings for the entire staff, not just the sommeliers.
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Service standards for Four Seasons wait staff were also modified.
Dana Salisbury, a dancer and visual artist who serves as the host, will lead you by the hand to your table, and wait staff will orient you to your mysterious food and drink.
You can easily imagine that happening in the current location's '60s mod interior with leather banquettes, a giant seafood ice boat and vested wait staff that all give off a Cold War-era highbrow vibe.
Another client was told that the reason he had been given the contract was because of the way he had treated the wait staff in the restaurant when he was taken out to dinner.
But inquiring minds will want to know who is paying for the extra secret service protection, the extra wait staff , the screeners and background checkers, and motorcades of the DC and Capital police.
And some executives don't want a 30-minute lunch, says Mr. Pipes, who talked to his wait staff and learned that many executives use lunch to build rapport, having informal conversation for almost the entire hour.
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After Hurricane Katrina forced it to close in 2005, the hotel reopened in 2009, completely renovated with a long walnut bar, elegant tile floor and white coat-wearing wait staff, nodding to the former opulence of old New Orleans.
You see at Restaurant Med, where patrons only can speak to their wait staff about ingredients, and demand the modern but unhelpful ovens they heard about from friends and the media, it is really difficult to create meals that patrons thoroughly enjoy.
"We would prefer that patients did not have to wait for beds and staff make every effort to organise this, " it said.
The river around the island is known for its abundant fishing, where you can while away the day, or just relax in your private hut and wait for the local staff to cook mouth-watering Indian dishes such as fish curry, pappadam or vegetable korma.
As he puts it, 'It's the biggest pain in the ass - you can wait two hours to sit and the staff is hands-down the meanest - but it's most frequently giving you the perfect pizza.
Stenhousemuir-born Black will join the Scotland staff for the friendly against Sweden in August and cannot wait to get started.
In March, more than 300 ambulances had to wait more than half an hour before delivering their patients to hospital staff.
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They could wait however long it takes to see an ER doctor (likely several hours) or the ER staff would set them up with an appointment with a primary care physician within 24 hours.
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And that is just a reality that you have to accept if you're President, that there are going to be times when the campaign has to wait because he has to make important decisions, have important conversations with foreign leaders, or meetings with staff and others -- members of Congress -- to get the work done that needs to be done.
So rather than wait for the perfect candidates to walk through the door, companies have decided to school their in-house staff or train new hires who may lack the exact skills they were looking for.
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