{"id":4775,"date":"2015-06-18T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2015-06-18T13:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:00:59","slug":"which-is-more-appropriate-guest-or-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/which-is-more-appropriate-guest-or-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is more appropriate: Guest or Customer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you work in a family restaurant, quick service, or fast casual establishment, you probably serve customers. If you work in an upscale restaurant with tablecloths and a fine selection of wine, you likely serve guests. Why the distinction?<\/p>\n<p>This article from Shiftgig explores this question. Technically, customer is the correct definition according to the dictionary. Customers buy goods and services, and since the restaurant isn&#8217;t giving away food for free, they&#8217;re serving customers.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when you look up &#8220;guest,&#8221; one of the definitions given is &#8220;a customer at a restaurant.&#8221; It&#8217;s become commonplace to treat diners as guests, as if we&#8217;re allowing them into our home as honored and beloved friends, especially in high class establishments.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiftgig.com\/articles\/guest-vs-customer-does-word-make-restaurant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Guest&#8221; Vs. &#8220;Customer&#8221; &#8211; Does the Word Make the Restaurant?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you work in a family restaurant, quick service, or fast casual establishment, you probably serve customers. If you work in an upscale restaurant with tablecloths and a fine selection of wine, you likely serve guests. Why the distinction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}