Is there a way to skip the queue and get a table at your favorite restaurant? Modern-day online reservations system has made this possible!
An expensive meal with your loved ones at a lavish restaurant should be special!
However, too often, it’s a disappointment when you have to wait in the queue to get a table after weeks of trying to score a reservation.
The tolerance is further lost when you see the people sitting at the corner table getting VIP treatment.
Waiters are attentive, diners no more wait for the waiters to take the orders, and the chef comes out to greet them.
Who doesn’t want to be treated like that? Well, the good thing is, we all can get this special treatment!
Wondering how?
Below we have shared some tips to skip the lines and experience VIP treatment at popular restaurants. Try a few of these, and you will always get what you’ve always expected.
- Book Your Table Like a VIP
While this seems an obvious way to skip a line and get a table without wasting time, that’s not just it.
You’d be thinking of giving a call to the restaurant and asking them to book a table for you on the day you want.
However, think of this: you have been trying to call a restaurant, but it took you 3 days to connect with the restaurant reservation authority. Alas… you found there’s no availability!
A time-saving and surefire way to make a reservation at any restaurant is to go DIGITAL.
There are several apps out there allowing you to make online table reservations at the restaurant of your choice in no time.
Further, apps like WuwWuw even give you the flexibility to transfer your reservations to those who need them if you aren’t able to make it on the scheduled date & time. Isn’t it great!
Booking a table in advance without troubling yourself or the restaurant personnel will surely bring you the VIP treatment you’ve been looking for.
- Get To Know About The Ordinary & The Specials
When you have arrived at the reservation and are sitting at the table, the two things you should ask the waiter before ordering the meal are: (i) What does everyone order, (ii) What is it that everyone barely orders but it’s the Chef’s best?
Then, order both items.
When you order something that may be the Chef’s special but nobody ever orders, you get the attention of the restaurant staff. It’s quite obvious for a Chef to show off and wants people to try their best dish on the menu.
And when you do so, you may get VIP treatment from the restaurant staff and even the Chef.
- Be That First Customer
Often times we read about many new restaurants in magazines or local food blogs or hear from our friends and fam. If you get to know about any such new place, go!
Let the restaurant know how did you come to know about their place and what made you visit it.
Often restaurants treasure their first customers.
- Be Kind & Forgiving
Mistakes may happen to anybody, anytime. Even VIPs have to wait sometimes, get the wrong dish, or get spilled on.
VIPS are simply people who manage well when things didn’t go as planned. In case when the restaurant messed up, and they know about it, you can score good points by not making a big deal about it.
Instead, you should calmly deal with the situation and make the restaurant people comfortable. Remember, kindness can get you the best rewards of all time.
- Praise & Reward
If there’s a dish on the menu that you really like, send compliments to the chef.
Tell them what you like about it the most. It might sound dorky, but it’ll be appreciated. And if you liked the ambiance and overall service, send a note to the restaurant manager, and the staff appreciated their creativity and hospitality.
If you really love the place, send a note to the chef. Very few people do this.
A little appreciation or gratitude can make somebody’s day and will surely boost their confidence and lead them to do even better.
You can also think about giving a tip if you like the place and the service. You can tip 25% if your pocket allows you to.
- Be That Returning Customer
If you liked a place, you should consider revisiting it for two meals that very week.
If you do this, the restaurant will never forget you.
Every time you visit them or make a reservation, the restaurant staff will make everything ready to serve you in the best possible way.
You can also get to know some of the people from the restaurant staff, so even if they leave the place and move to any other restaurant for work, you will get a VIP experience even at their new places.
The Takeaway
We hope these tips will help you enjoy a VIP time at the popular restaurant the next time you visit them.
We all want to be treated specially; however, it also depends on how we carry ourselves and treat others to get treated rightly.