Just how do they do it? That's the question I find myself asking at dinner tonight. Me, my daughter, and her boyfriend are having dinner at PFChang's which I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!! It's a favorite of mine. I don't think they even make a dish I do not like. One of the things that stands out in my mind is there OUTSTANDING Customer Service. These fine people at the P. F. Chang's establishment have outdone themselves in the service department...well, in the quality department as well, but right now we are talking service! We ordered our drinks, our appetizers, and our entrees. Then, we're talking away, drinks being served, people stopping and asking...everything ok??? Oh yeah. At least three different people asked us this in a span of about 15 minutes. It was amazing. Then, one waiter drops off our appetizers and also happens to drop off a WHOLE freakin' plate of barbecued ribs!! We didn't order these wonderful ribs, they just happen to descend on our table...."ON the house". WooHa!! OK, so we finish our appetizers of Chicken Lettuce Wraps, Salt & Pepper Calamari, and these fabulous ribs - that woulda knocked your socks off!! Then, they bring our entrees....My All Time Favorite Lemon Scallops, Sweet & Sour Chicken and lo and behold ANOTHER freebie ON the HOUSE ENTREE of Kung Pao Scallops!!! What???? Excuse me??? Did I hear you correctly???
Meish and I are lookin' at each other goin.....uh....are we sitting at the "lucky" table tonight???? This hasn't happened before. Ever. And we go here fairly often. Our Waiter ROCKED!! The Service ROCKED!! The FOOD Rocked! And I must write them a letter. Which I will do as soon as I'm done bloghopping.
Oh wait. I got off track. (I think I must be spending too much time over at A Spot of T....
OK, I'm on a bloghopping SPREE tonight as my husband is out and I am FREE to read as I please for as long as I please. I think it's an obsession. Anyway. I happened on a blog of a mother to six children. It was a very interesting blog...the way it was written. It was entertaining. And I noticed on her blogroll, she had many other mothers of multiple kids. So, off I go to visit the other blogs....one of them being Mommy of Many. She has nine children. NINE children. HOW on earth do these people afford life????? Sitting in that restaurant tonight, I looked around and saw MANY tables of parents with children. Actually tables with four and five kids. Some of them in high chairs. I know how expensive our bill was. How do these people PAY to eat in these establishments with ALL of these kids??? I used to work with a guy who had ten kids. They did not go out to eat. Like EVER. They made the dollar S T R E T C H. Big time. And the other little things I noticed were interesting too....all of the twenty-somethings had Coach, or Gucci, or Versace, or Prada. I was working in a high paying job in my late thirties / early forties before I could afford that stuff. And......how do these kids do it???
I asked my daughter this question. She said, "Ma, alot of those things are fakes". And alot of them their parents' bought for them. Oh. It's the Parents!!! Hell, I can't afford to support ONE child, let alone six, or nine, or TEN???? These kids are all lined up at Starbucks with their parents. It is truly amazing.
I simply do not know how they do it. Do you? And, if you do figure it out...do you think it's a good thing???
