Friday, September 16, 2005

Don't Stop Selling Your Menu!

OPERATORS TRY NEW TACTICS AS SURVEY SHOWS SCARCITY OF SUGGESTIVE SELLING
Many employees of full-service restaurants fail to suggest beverages, appetizers or desserts to patrons, potentially costing their employers an estimated $5 to $15 per table per turn, a recent national survey found. Some operators, however, including Peter Levy of Seattle’s Chow Foods, say they are not losing sleep because of such server oversights, as their sales-building strategies do not hinge solely, if at all, on overt suggestive selling.