{"id":2684,"date":"2008-10-23T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2008-10-23T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:28:02","slug":"how-to-be-a-vip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/how-to-be-a-vip\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a VIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took an hour off from website work this morning to catch up on blogs, and while doing so I discovered a great post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourhourworkweek.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/19\/9-tricks-for-getting-a-table-and-being-a-vip-at-hot-restaurants\/\">how to become a VIP at hot restaurants<\/a>.\u00a0 Several points are ones I definitely agree with &#8211; start at the bar, tip 25%, be forgiving of occasional inattentive service when it&#8217;s busy, let them know you&#8217;ll refer a lot of business their way if you&#8217;re treated well.\u00a0 There are also some ideas I hadn&#8217;t considered before, such as asking the chef what he\/she thinks everyone should order but hardly anyone does.\u00a0 I definitely learned a few things from this post.<\/p>\n<p>If you eat out a lot, this one&#8217;s worth a bookmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took an hour off from website work this morning to catch up on blogs, and while doing so I discovered a great post on how to become a VIP at hot restaurants.\u00a0 Several points are ones I definitely agree with &#8211; start at the bar, tip 25%, be forgiving of occasional inattentive service when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/how-to-be-a-vip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to be a VIP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->