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28dec/110

Blindtasting fine bordeaux wines

Is the most expensive wine (Petrus € 1521,31) really the best? And the bottle of 1% of that price, how does it taste? See and find out!

(via Dagmar Sporck)

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20dec/112

Michel Teló – Ai Se Eu Te Pego

Tonight I saw this song of Michel Telo in the iTunes top 10 of the Netherlands. Very strange because we don't listen that much to music other than English or Dutch. But it's a very funny song with a little dance -even performed by soccer players), so a perfect CrazyWaiter-song! And the clip (eg. the public) isn't a big task to watch at 1080px and fullscreen :) (another performance can be found here). Translation after the clip.

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19dec/110

CrazyWaiters Drinks Calculator

This weekend the CrazyWaiter spent his time spending assisting a friend who threw a party. Of course I concentrated myself on the food and beverage with serving his guests and friends. When J. asked some weeks ago for help to plan how many drinks he should buy for his party, I made a calculator. I'm happy to share it with you. You enter the values in the yellow and the blue cells, and the list to buy will be visible in the pink cells.

As always with calculatingmodels, the quality of the output depends strongly on the input. If you enter 40 guests during 6 hours, don't be surprised that you can bring back 75% of the stock to the shop when there are only 25 guests during 3 hours. Luckily we could get the money back, but what a pity that we had to spent this money on a parking fine - never felt so stupid :( BTW, when I entered the right data, the shopping list was very close to what the people had consumed in reality :proud:

The party was nice, but it is over now, so here it is...

CrazyWaiters Drinks Calculator

(Disclaimer: use it  wisely and at own risk. CrazyWaiter is not responsible etc. etc. etc.)

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10dec/112

How to get more tips… use makeup!


We knew it already but now it's researched another time: waitresses with makeup have more tip than those without makeup.

In this study the effect of cosmetics on tipping behavior and the link between behavior and judgment on the physical attractiveness of waitresses wearing or not wearing cosmetics were tested. A female waitress with or without makeup was instructed to act in her usual way with her patrons. Results showed that the makeup condition was associated with a significant increase in the tipping behavior of male customers. It was also found that the effect of makeup on tipping behavior was mediated by the perception of the physical attractiveness of the waitress, but only when considering male customers.

Read it here
(NB In the earlier research there's a difference in the number of women who tip (or don't) for a waitress with makeup vs no makeup. The CrazyWaiter doesn't have a explanation for that, he emailed the author already for that. Until then: wear make up and give the bill to the men on the table :) )

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3dec/112

What is a customer (or guest)

A very nice quote to put on the wall somewhere in your backstage. And yes, ofcourse you'll change the word customer in guest !

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises.
He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it.
He is not an outsider of our business. He is part of it.
We are not doing him a favour by serving him.
He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so

Mahatma Ghandi (in a speech in South Africa in 1890)

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