Guest guest Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Yes, it does sometimes happen. Sometimes people have " other stuff " going on, and they carry that " stuff " in with them. Other people have a legitimate complaint. I'm not sure if you have a family type restaurant or a more upscale place, but here are some ideas I've tried out before in a restaurant. To the best of your ability, greet the people as soon as you can. And ANCHOR them with good feelings or break states as they are about to enter the door. You can do that energetically and with a smile. Break state them (put them in a neutral state), as soon as possible. Or at least pace their state. " Are you having a good day so far? " if they look ok, or " Are you having a good day yet? " if they appear sour. Match / mirror them to the best of your ability so you can pace THEN LEAD them. For instance, I used to ask people how they were, and then when they replied back and asked me how I was, I would give whatever answer I " felt " , which was a nice way to break rapport in many cases. Let me explain. " How are you today? " " Oh, I'm not too bad. How about you? " " Oh, I'm AWESOME, thanks! " (with lots of energy that blew them out of the water, so to speak) Now I have been training to the best of my ability to match their predicates, the words they use AND to also match their posture and tonality. So if they reply with some words I don't want to use, I at least use their tonality and posture, and then lead them. This is something I had to train to do, because I automatically just fed back what I was thinking / feeling, without any regard to their present state. Also, learn the Care Bear heart drill. Learn to do it COVERTLY. Also learn how to MENTALLY trace it, using your eyes and intention (also using language patterns), so you can ACTIVATE THEIRS. An unzip is something you can do with your eyes. Then insert smile energy (A real good drill I learned from Doc) ball in to their solar plexus chakra. I don't know what type of set up you have. Some buffets have the people pay as they walk in. In that case, they can be unzipped as you are handing them back their change, receipt, credit card, etc. Train the wait staff to unzip / insert smile. This drill does take a bit of practice. I thought I knew the drill after I heard how to do it and had done it 5 or 6 times. 25 times later, I started to notice things... 500 repetitions later, I learned a whole lot of really neat things I would have never imagined unless I had committed to learning and USING the drill in as many contexts as possible. Another thing you can do is prior to opening, walk through the entire restaurant and, using your intention, CHARGE THE ENTIRE ROOM with positive energy. If you notice any " dark spots " or " bad feelings, " clap them away or do some other sort of bannishing, such as ccw spin, or whatever else you do, and then charge that spot with radiant energy. How do you do that? You can stand there as you activate your radiant circuits. You can walk / dance around as you sing / hum music you really like. Segment intend appreciation to each customer who will be there that day. Charge the doorways with thought forms of the customer enjoying themselves, having the feeling they got real good food at a good value AND got more than their money's worth. Do it from 3 perceptual positions. Then at night, before you go to sleep, do a " Dream Invader " technique where you have your customers and potential customers on your imaginary mental screen (inside your mind), and thank the difficult ones for lessons learned, and the ones who are " impossible " or " not worth dealing with, " thank them, but suggest to them they will be happier at so and so's restaurant instead. Then you want to make sure you program for WHAT YOU WANT INSTEAD, which is to thank the others, (and use submodalities to make the unwanted people " disappear " from the picture), and tell those others what you like and appreciate about them and their business. Genuinely thank them, as you activate your radiant energies toward them, and let them know how much you enjoy giving them great food and awesome service for their money. Follow up when they come in your place of business the next day or later on by anchoring their good feelings to being in your restaurant and eating your good food. Do NOT bad mouth the competition, as " bitch circuits " would be activated and they would have bad feelings while eating your food, so make sure they feel good while in your place. Who are your good customers and regular customers? Thank them during dream time, work remote healing cases on them where appropriate. You might think this takes a lot of time, but when you do the correct training, you have time distortion while at the correct level of mind, and you can do an enormous amount of " work " at the subjective level. So in 15-20 minutes time at the correct level of mind, you can Remote Influence a lot of customers, especially when you do a " Dream Invaders " technique to communicate with many of them all at once. So what about problem customers? I remember one woman who came in to a fast food place I worked part time at. She made some condescending and rude remarks to one of the people there that were not appropriate (she had been given good, polite and friendly service), so I accessed my location for " dog turd " as I talked with that woman and looked at her. She got real uncomfortable. I also used Dream Invader techniques to communicate with her at night that what she did was rude and unnaceptable and that she had better be NICE to people who had been nice to her, or something worse would happen. The next time she came in, she was very friendly to everyone and had a different emotional tone about her. Sometimes freebies will work wonders with a customer (something that costs you a few cents or maybe a dollar, yet has a large perceived value to them -- I.e., a free soft drink with refills costs you about 5 cents, yet has a perceived value of $1.50 or all the way up to $2.99 or more, depending on the restaurant). I remember one couple who KNEW ahead of time they would have to wait for something, and they said they wanted it anyway. This was a large meal they wanted to take home with them. Then the woman got pissed off because she had to wait, after we TOLD them they would have to wait, and they said " ok, we'll wait. " So we gave her the item they were waiting for. They were still pissed; it didn't matter what we did. We could have given them the entire meal for 6 people free, and they still would have been pissed and bitched about it. I didn't want to deal with them again, and the other people there didn't want to deal with them again, so I did a Remote Influence technique to let them know we didn't want them there any more, they weren't welcome, we didn't like them just like they didn't like us, and to please go somewhere else instead. THEN, I followed up by doing a break state and seeing all the happy customers who would love our awesome food and great service, and I sent them blessing and welcomed them to the store. The grumpy old goat and the grumpier old bat never came back. But lots of other people did and commented on how much they loved the food and the great value. Also, program a thought form using radiant energies above the restaurant and in the parking lot so people who are going by will be drawn like a magnet in to your store. Program for GOOD CUSTOMERS to come in. Now sometimes, a grumpy customer is a good thing. If something is wrong and needs fixed, then it's good to know about it, because if one person is pissed about something, there's a good chance 10 more didn't tell you, but they did go tell their friends. Anyway, long post, I know. I've trained people to fix a variety of relationship problems using Remote Influence and Dream Invader techniques. One of the things a lot of people don't remember to do is to make sure they learn to control their own energies AND ALSO to make sure they learn to examine things from all 3 perceptual positions. Then it gets a lot easier to influence others. This is stuff I KNOW works because I've done it, and I've shown other people how to do it too. Of course, I did learn it from Dr. La Tourrette (you can write to him to ask him about his covert influencing materials). There is much, much more I didn't cover. It would take at least 3 seminars, probably more. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Sincerely, Jim Dealing with 'difficult' people > >Hi all > >I run a restaurant and unfortunately sometimes encounter very >difficult people. Tonight was one example, I have a young waiter and >one table in particular seemed to 'attack' him energetically and made >up all sorts of nonsense and exaggerated complaints about him. There >were some issues which were true, but very very trivial (they had >waited about 15 minutes for dessert menus, they claimed 20 mins and >even so was hardly grounds for the aggression of their complaint), >some were wholly not true, e.g. the guy leaned into his sauce then >complained my waiter had 'poured' it over him (impossible as it was a >sticky reduction that doesnt run!. > >I tried to listen to their issues and offered them discount but they >were so rude and disproportionately aggressive and plain nasty that >in the end Im afraid I told them I'd prefer it if they didnt return >yet I remain angry and upset and they went hours ago! I feel very >violated and hurt at how unfair, rude and unreasonable they were. I >believe if I encountered this it says something about me, in some >way, but am trying to find what and how I can best turn this >unpleasant episode into a positive. I wonder if anyone has >any 'energetic' suggestions that can help turn this horrid night into >a positive learning experience (Im going boxing training tomorrow to >hit a punchbag but Im sure there must be something more >constructive!!) > >All suggestions welcome! > >Lisa > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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