{"id":44,"date":"2011-01-10T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-03-22T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T22:20:58","slug":"christinas-on-the-danforth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/christinas-on-the-danforth\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina&#8217;s on the Danforth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t recent, but I was sitting here thinking of some of my favourite restaurants to go to because of excellent customer service, and I thought I might start to mention them one at a time, in random order, here on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>For many years I used to live just off the Danforth.\u00a0 <i>(Man I miss Greek food sometimes&#8230;)<\/i><br \/>\nAnyway, whenever I wanted to impress a lady on a date, or my Mother when she visited Toronto, I would take her to Christina&#8217;s.\u00a0 What I like about that place is the decor, the food, and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">service<\/span>.\u00a0 The gentlemen wear formal black and white and talk softly to you.\u00a0 Even bringing butter is done professionally and with an air of importance, without feeling stuffy or snobby.<\/p>\n<p>I went there many times in my life, and only had one bad experience.\u00a0 I had taken a girlfriend out for a romantic night of wine and seafood, and the restaurant was not too busy.\u00a0 We were seated alone.\u00a0 20 minutes later a small but loud group of ESL students and their teacher came in, and for some strange reason, were seated right beside us!!!\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t believe the daftness or insensitivity of the hostess.\u00a0 There were plenty of open tables available in the room.\u00a0 <i>(It was not the group&#8217;s fault, of course.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anyway after grumbling and scowling a bit I quietly went up to the bar and made my complaint so that the small party could not hear, and we <i>(my girlfriend and I)<\/i> were offered a new, more private table.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson for servers and hostesses here is &#8211; look before you seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t recent, but I was sitting here thinking of some of my favourite restaurants to go to because of excellent customer service, and I thought I might start to mention them one at a time, in random order, here on the blog. For many years I used to live just off the Danforth.\u00a0 (Man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[536],"tags":[651,569],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-service","tag-restaurants","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}