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Appropriate For Football Season…. In a recent visit to a restaurant I experienced two of the phenomenon I call server handoffs. You know what I mean – one person brings you the menus and takes your drink orders, another person brings drinks and lets you know about specials, and a third actually brings the meals and takes reorders for drinks. In this case each person introduced themselves, leading me to think they were going to be my server for the rest of the meal. It wasn’t that a shift change was happening, since I saw all three of them the whole time I was there. We had no complaints about the speed of service, but it was rather disorienting – the first server had recommended one of two wines, and when I decided to quaff the other one, the new person had no idea which one it was. Server handoffs must have some logic or the restaurant wouldn’t engage in the practice, but it seems a strange way to do things in a business where building rapport with customers is important… First Looks… A reader brought to my attention that I had forgotten to mention the opening of Cedars, the Lebanese cafe in the space below Chelsea Gastropub in Hermosa. It’s an unpretentious spot offering simple…
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