This smoothes logistics for you in the future, and saves your energy for the meeting / sell dinner with the candidate / etc etc, and you can offer it as a favor for clients/etc, but it gives you a small but real home turf advantage for any future conversations.
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Plus you get to play patron-of-the-great-local-place on your software company's nickel and, while your mileage might vary on this, I suspect that appeals to the aesthetics of many folks who run software companies.
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At the risk of stating the obvious: if you're in part of the world that has the institution of tipping, you're bad at your job if the serving staff don't high-five each other every time you walk into the restaurant with a client/prospect/employee/etc.
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The amount of money required to make you memorable to a tip-compensated employee, relative to the amount of money you have on the line in any conversation happening in the presence of one, is stupidly small.
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Sending an employee with her/his partner to the restaurant and covering the bill as a reward/celebration = big win. 100x the value for the $. The partner never forgets that experience.
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I do this but the place doesn’t have reservations, but I do find that my food gets discounted. I usually pay part of the discount back as bonus tip.
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