CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

[Retz]

CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character



Office Depot CEO Steve Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an upscale French restaurant in Denver.
The purple sorbet in cut glass he was serving tumbled onto the expensive white gown of an obviously rich and important woman. "I watched in slow motion ruining her dress for the evening," Odland says. "I thought I would be shot on sight."

Thirty years have passed, but Odland can't get the stain out of his mind, nor the woman's kind reaction. She was startled, regained composure and, in a reassuring voice, told the teenage Odland, "It's OK. It wasn't your fault." When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Odland isn't the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those rare laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It's hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but all interviewed agree with the Waiter Rule.

Source: USATODAY.com - CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person."

"Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with," Swanson writes. "Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles."

USATODAY.com - CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

[falken]

If you treat a waiter rudely. Your order might come with some extra ingredients in them.

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[weszt]

agree ba kayo na karamihan sa mga filipino rude sa mga waiter, napapansin ko kc sa mga resto minsan sinisigwan nila o malakas lang boses mga waiter. pero hindi lahat meron pa din mababait at nagbibigay pa ng tip


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[baker123]

na observe ko mas respectful na ang pinoy (na customer) sa mga kapwa pinoy (na workers) ngayon kaysa ten years ago. mas nag mature na ang marami. and mas mahaba ang patience. and marunong na mag thank you sa mga waiters and the likes.

agree ba kayo na karamihan sa mga filipino rude sa mga waiter, napapansin ko kc sa mga resto minsan sinisigwan nila o malakas lang boses mga waiter. pero hindi lahat meron pa din mababait at nagbibigay pa ng tip


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[vinj]

You don't have to be a CEO to figure that out.

Basically, good humans treat everyone, with the same amount of respect and gratitude in general cases (it may vary depending on situations). Also, if you're dealing with low life scum (i.e. politicians and LGU leeches), everything and anything goes? :D

[shelu]

na observe ko mas respectful na ang pinoy (na customer) sa mga kapwa pinoy (na workers) ngayon kaysa ten years ago. mas nag mature na ang marami. and mas mahaba ang patience. and marunong na mag thank you sa mga waiters and the likes.

there are still others who treat their kasambahay as of low-life form. marami sa mall nyan, ang yaya nila dapat may uniporme. whenever i see one, i feel like hitting the amo in the face. it is so degrading to the maid. pwede naman i respeto sila like one of our own. kailangan pa ba talaga ipagyabang na may mga maids sila?

[dr. d]

there are still others who treat their kasambahay as of low-life form. marami sa mall nyan, ang yaya nila dapat may uniporme. whenever i see one, i feel like hitting the amo in the face. it is so degrading to the maid. pwede naman i respeto sila like one of our own. kailangan pa ba talaga ipagyabang na may mga maids sila?

what about yung may uniformed nurse? i mean, why the uniform? heh heh.

[dr. d]

You don't have to be a CEO to figure that out.

Basically, good humans treat everyone, with the same amount of respect and gratitude in general cases (it may vary depending on situations). Also, if you're dealing with low life scum (i.e. politicians and LGU leeches), everything and anything goes? :D

how did it evolve that these low-life scum and lgu leeches now wield power over their bosses (us!) ?
there was a time when they feared us!

[chua_riwap]

there are still others who treat their kasambahay as of low-life form. marami sa mall nyan, ang yaya nila dapat may uniporme. whenever i see one, i feel like hitting the amo in the face. it is so degrading to the maid. pwede naman i respeto sila like one of our own. kailangan pa ba talaga ipagyabang na may mga maids sila?

naku, may thread dati na ganyan kung dapat bang magsuot ng uniforms ang mga maids. naging mainit discussion, until ma-lock yung thread......

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[chua_riwap]

If you treat a waiter rudely. Your order might come with some extra ingredients in them.

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agree w/ this. wag mo susungitan ang waiter.

pag bigay ng order mo, nakangiti pa yan.
pero may inilagay na yan na something "nutritious", w/out you knowing it.

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[weszt]

oo treat them properly, my kaibigan ako ng work sa kilalang fastfood ang sama daw ng pakikitungo nun customer sa waiter ayun pra dinuraan sa kitchen nya ung food

wewwwww....




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[e2romo]

The only reason to require maids to ware uniforms is to flaunt it in public, kayabangan, na mayaman sila. They could have gone low profile para di malaman ng publiko na katulong kasama nila, pero they prefer to project that they have arrived, yumaman na sila.

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[boybi]

Ayan na naman si yaya

[jick.cejoco]

naglastug ti pinoy ah

[cardict]

Ituloy lang nila kayabangan ,pag natiktikan sila kidnapping na kasunod

[jick.cejoco]

The only reason to require maids to ware uniforms is to flaunt it in public, kayabangan, na mayaman sila. They could have gone low profile para di malaman ng publiko na katulong kasama nila, pero they prefer to project that they have arrived, yumaman na sila.

Sent from the Twilight Zone...

ang kayabangan may katapat at may lugar na hindi nararapat.
example: it is military custom and courtesy to salute officers or officers of higher rank, but in combat areas, nobody should be saluting nor anybody wants to be saluted. the person saluted to is the person that the snipers of the enemy will shoot. if you flash cash or flash status, you usually become the main target

[vinj]

how did it evolve that these low-life scum and lgu leeches now wield power over their bosses (us!) ?
there was a time when they feared us!

Eversince they figured that they are not voted into office and are the mighty flies hovering around the incumbent powers that be? Grabe talaga sila!

As for maids wearing uniform. We actually had one yaya who asked to be issued uniforms as she preferred going out in those and wearing it at home. Other then that, we let them wear their usual casual clothes and they eat the same stuff as we do most of the time.

[Retz]

magkano ang binibigay niyong tip sa waiter pag maganda ang service?

[holdencaulfield]

^ pababaryahan ko sa waiter yung 500 o 1000 tapos bibigyan ko ng 10.

nung batam bata pako sa menilah hutel, tinanong ko sa waiter kung totoo bang sa toilet bowl nila kinukuha yung tubig na ipinaiinom samin? ganun na lang yung galit ni erpats ko sakin, binibigyan ko pa daw ng ideya yung waiter kung sakali.
sabi ko sa erpats ko eh totoo naman ata eh. tabo nila sa toilet yung pitsel na pinangseserve nilang pang-inom natin.
pinanghuhugas nila ng pw3t yan!
dismayadong dismayado si erpats sakin. g*go ko talaga hehe.

[niky]

Tips? Depends on the bill... typically 20-40 pesos or 10 percent, with or without service charge, but if it's a fancy resto and the bill is 1k-2k (eating in a big group), the tip left depends on the service. Decent service gets 50. Good service and great food gets a hundred.