article thumbnail

Making sure you receive great customer service

Service Untitled

Last evening a group of us went out to dinner at a popular Italian restaurant. Apparently the dinner order wasn’t to the satisfaction of one very nasty gentleman, and as he raised his voice and insulted the young server, everyone in the restaurant and bar area turned around almost snarling with disdain aimed toward the rude customer.

article thumbnail

Customer service at “stake” at Morton’s Steakhouse?

Service Untitled

Peter Shankman is an author and frequent customer service blogger who has an impressive 100.000 Twitter followers, so the other day he used an experience to allegedly show how companies treat their good clients. I don’t eat meat.). photo credit: missmeng. No related posts.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Back to the basics for customer service

Service Untitled

Is it really poor customer service or do we as consumers expect too much? Do people really boycott businesses and restaurants the first time we feel we are treated poorly? When I first graduated from college, and of course I was poor, I purchased what to me was a very expensive white shirt with navy blue trim from Macy’s.

article thumbnail

Why Blindly Following the Rules Is a Mistake

Eat Your Career

The other night, my parents and I hit a local restaurant for happy hour. How often do we follow the rules at the expense of something else, perhaps more important? In this instance, it was at the expense of exceptional customer service. I’m talking about more than customer service now.

article thumbnail

Swissôtel Métropole, Geneva

Practically Perfect PA

During my time in Geneva it certainly hadn’t escaped my notice that Geneva is an expensive city: you can’t really escape it (unless you spend all of your time hanging around the central train station). Quite simply breakfast at the Swissôtel Métropole was some of the worst customer service I have ever experienced.

Expenses 100
article thumbnail

Service with a snarl: What to look for and how to avoid it

Service Untitled

No doubt we have all been victims of bad customer service, and no doubt we have left companies and moved on to their competition because the experience, at least in our own eyes for the moment, had been intolerable. How is the customer treated? Is the service we expect now provided? Is there an apology for making us wait?

article thumbnail

Zoe Ellis Moore Founder of Spaces to Places | Navigating the Changing Needs of Today’s Professionals: Trends in the Flexible Workspace Industry

Allwork

Myth #3: Flexible workspaces are too expensive for small businesses. The Instant Office report was fascinating from this year, this of September, and it was all about service and just basic things of great customer service there. About this episode Have you heard these myths about the flexible workspace industry?

AT&T 259