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The Ultimate Guide to Enhance Your Guest Experience

The Ultimate Guide to Enhance Your Guest Experience

The Ultimate Guide to Enhance Your Guest Experience

What will be the easiest task while initially set up any eatery? Many will shout in response, the setting of the tables.  Really you will never worry about setting off the table as an owner of a restaurant, bar, QSR, FSR, Bakery, stall or a café. But the fact is Yes, you need to worry about that!!!… Strange right? But the fact is Yes, you read that right, YES YOU NEED!!! Let me tell you why it is not WRONG. How could you mess up with a crucial job like table setting for your eatery if you want to earn money and recognition too obviously that depends on enhanced guest experience?

Let us start with the table setting ideas for four favorite types of restaurants!

  • Full-Service Restaurant
  • Bars and Breweries
  • Cafes and Stalls
  • Quick-Service Restaurant  

What will be the easiest task while initially set up any eatery? Many will shout in response, the setting of the tables.  Really you will never worry about setting off the table as an owner of a restaurant, bar, QSR, FSR, Bakery, stall or a café. But the fact is Yes, you need to worry about that!!!… Strange right? But the fact is Yes, you read that right, YES YOU NEED!!! Let me tell you why it is not WRONG. How could you mess up with a crucial job like table setting for your eatery if you want to earn money and recognition too obviously that depends on enhanced guest experience?

Let us start with the table setting ideas for four favorite types of restaurants!

  • Full-Service Restaurant
  • Bars and Breweries
  • Cafes and Stalls
  • Quick-Service Restaurant  
  • Full-Service Restaurant

There are mostly two ways to set the things up here, first is Formal and the second is informal.

  1.  A formal meal includes soups, appetizers, first course, full course, salad, and dessert. The checklist includes:
    1. Before the arrival of the guests, the plates should be kept on the table, the glasses must be filled with water & covered with coaster and the wine is to be kept corked and readied to be served, napkins are to be kept folded.
    1. Every element on the table must have equal space of placements in them
    1. The table must not involve more than three utensils on both sides of the plate
    1. Dessert spoons and forks have to be brought in just before the dessert is served
  2. The table setting for an informal dinner table etiquette is to place the utensils in an orderly way like:
  3. Appliances that are used first must be kept closes to the plate
  4. Forks are to be put to the left of the plate, while knives and spoons to the right
  5. Dinner plate to be set 1st on the table with a well-folded napkin on top of it
  6. Dinner fork to be placed on the left, along with salad fork!
  7. Spoons like a soup spoon, teaspoon, tablespoon and then dessert spoons are to be kept right after the knife.
  • Bars and Breweries

No matter how casual your approach may be, there is a standard table setting that a bar has to carry on the underline, to appease the guest with the simplistic yet attractive table setting. So, wasting no time further to set the table at bars:

For service at the bar table

This is something very easy to understand, but very tricky to carry out.

  • Keep the table perfectly clean. Not even a drop of the costliest wine of your bar must be left unwiped to leave a wrong impression about your bar’s service.
  • The table should only consist of colorful and attractive menu cards that will assist people to binge on your offerings.
  • The servers have to be prompt enough to understand the crowd they are serving to.
  • If the crowd belongs to a much younger age group, show them the list of alcohols 1st and then gradually ask them what accompaniments do they need to drink?

For service at the bar counter

People who come to sit by the bar countertop, these people are often focused on chilling by sipping on their favorite glass of spirit and watching the bar television or chatting away on the phone. For them, you always have to keep the countertop minimally decorated, & clean.

  • A majority of the bars install beer taps so that they don’t have to waste time pouring this golden favorite of the mass in the glass.
  • Serve tapas or appetizer with small bowls or flatware and try to maintain variety for the drinks.
  • Keep the food menu handy, lightly printed and ideally, laminated.
  • the bartender has to be ready if the guest needs anything, the bartender has to promptly present the menu in front of him/her.

The whole point of table setting at the bar is all about being casual, with the required amount of professionalism.

  • Cafes and Stalls

Not always, the cafe and stall can be assisted with the advantageous setting of the mountains and calm weather. It is just this setting that keeps your guests to come back at your eatery, again and again. So, what should be the ideal table setting in this case?

  • Cafes can deck the tables up with little pots and bowls of attractive flowers and plants. 
  • When the guest arrives, a glass of water must be offered at first and then asked what he or she would like to have.
  • Order must be accompanied by a served on a flat plate with a fork on to it left.
  • If ordered for any beverage, it is to be kept in the order’s top right corner.

Cafes do not need much of the formality in serving. But yeah, the servers have to be quick in their approach, and friendly

  • Quick-Serve Restaurant

The quick-service restaurant or the QSR has no formality involved when table setting is considered. In fact, in fact, it is supposed to be the most casual form of dining where people mostly come with their family and friends to bite on to tasty food that is cooked fast.

  • Colorful and clean tables
  • No utensils used to serve food or to eat on by the guests
  • Creatively designed and wisely colored trays, on which the customers carry their food to the tables.
  • The restaurant attendants have to be prompt and quick so that when the guests leave, the tables get cleared, to welcome the next party.

A correctly set the table has the power to win the attention of the guest. Therefore, it should be on par with the theme of the restaurant.

Wrapping Up Here we have covered all the four major types of restaurants that have been covered as per their table setting requirements. This is an extensive list of do’s and don’ts for the restaurant owners who are new in the business and know nothing too little about the subject.