{"id":2449,"date":"2009-06-16T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2009-06-16T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T17:03:25","slug":"customer-service-to-absent-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/06\/customer-service-to-absent-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Service to Absent Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/119.jpg?resize=192%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"216\" \/><br \/>\nWe asked for a table for 2 and were directed to a square table designed for 2. Shortly after, a family left a series of 4 similar tables, which were joined together to be a rectangular stretch. Their tables were cleared and reconfigured to be 2 sets of 2 tables together. We asked if we could move to one of those sets, as they were in a nicer corner of the restaurant. The waitress said that each of the sets are for 4 people each only.<\/p>\n<p>Strange, because there was no one at the 4 tables. Stranger still was that any one of the sets could be separated to be 2 tables for 2, thus not creating any &#8216;wastage&#8217;. Strangest was that the waitress chose to be absent to 2 present customers (us), while being present to 8 absent customers. Isn&#8217;t customer service for customers in the flesh, instead of phantom ones who might not even turn up? (There were no reservations.) She couldn&#8217;t reconfigure the tables more flexibly as her mind was too rigid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked for a table for 2 and were directed to a square table designed for 2. Shortly after, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}