An underrated thing if you're in business: make friends with your local restaurant of choice, bring them enough lunches/dinners to get their attention, then ask them for a phone number that automatically and always gets you a table.
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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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I've always thought this could be sold as a service for places I've never been. Let me pay some big $$ fee in advance to be treated like a regular. I'll even provide names and photos of all attendees.
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I've had situations where it would have been worth $500 extra for me to be able to walk into a restaurant I've never been to and hear "Hello Mr. Faulkner, Your usual table?" then get immediately seated
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Replying to @southpolesteve @patio11
When I was junior and doing a lot of sales I’d swing by restaurants a couple hours early and pay off the front of house team to do this for me.
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