There are shortcuts to see what kind of person a person is. For example, the killing game. Also for example, ordering food.
You think ordering food is a natural attribute of foodies? Then, ordering food is a “food quotient” and emotional intelligence of the double major test.
Order badly, eat disappointingly, the friendship of the boat said to turn over, the career of the huge ship said to sink.
Order a good food, eat the living color, you are promoted to a warm baby, forced leader, or even a shining star in the team.
Do not believe? Today, the lunch break June to talk to you about the art of ordering food.
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Never order food, is the biggest problem
Always refuse to order food = too passive.
You may say: why bother so much, do not order food, will not be exposed?
Oh, “never take the initiative to order food”, will also become an argument for others to give you a label.
Once upon a time, I also never take the initiative to order food, even the party between girlfriends, each time also said: “I random, you point. “
Until one day, can no longer resist the best friend kindly remind: “Do you feel that you are too passive for the world? “
See my shock, she continued to open the box: “all need to make a choice of occasions, you choose to be silent. This is apparently easy-going, but in fact gives people a vague, no position, and even the feeling of not wanting to open up. Others have to guess how you feel. “
I then realized that being too passive is a selfish self-protection. Later, I began to learn to take the initiative to take on the task of starting the food.
You think ordering food is just deciding for everyone what to eat today?
No. Everyone, to a greater or lesser extent, has a fear of choice. To order food is to save others the trouble of making decisions and save their brain cells, you are serving. No one will say no to a person who is passionate about serving.
This, moreover, is a rare and valuable human contact for you. Do not take the opportunity to take responsibility, others will not see your ability.
(Of course this also depends on the occasion, generally speaking who treats who orders. Here means that others let you order food at least don’t just push it)
But, of course, do not shirk to order food is only the first step.
So, how to become a “will order” people?
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See who you are, start by choosing the right place
Choose the wrong = do not know compassion.
The inconsistency of taste is first from eating spicy or not to start the field.
I have seen people who do not eat spicy dishes themselves, but choose the Hunan restaurant, once they come up to say “small fried yellow beef do not put spicy, blood duck can not be less spicy …… oops you have what is not spicy dishes “, the meal has not yet started to eat want to say a “slow use of your own ah “and then lift the table to leave.
That said, Sichuan and Hunan dishes are delicious, but they are suitable for familiarity with each other, and the same non-spicy buddies to drink and enjoy. If they are not familiar with each other’s business banquet, or choose Cantonese cuisine, Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine and other safety cards. Why, on the whole, the Cantonese restaurant across the country is generally higher-end than the Sichuan restaurant (except for the local Guangdong)? This is and Cantonese cuisine is more suitable for business banquets as a result of each other.
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Choose the occasion for whatever atmosphere you want to create
Don’t know how to capture the atmosphere = don’t know what’s important.
If there are a lot of people, choose a restaurant with private rooms or a quiet hall with few people, and eat around the dinner. I have experienced a dozen people crowded in a narrow Vietnamese restaurant, had to use a small table lined up, everyone as Leonardo da Vinci “The Last Supper” shape. Talking basically by shouting, eating food basically by passing. Eating became a physical job, and then we all silently shut up.
If you have fewer people, you can choose some private occasions. For example, less than four people business negotiations, it is very suitable to find a mid-range Japanese restaurant in the CBD (but do not be a sushi chain), the style, volume, atmosphere are just right.
Of course, the privacy is not too good. Once on a business trip with a male colleague, I selected a Yunnan restaurant according to the popular point. The result was that the restaurant only had a small compartment with dim lighting and a heavy veil. It was awkward to sit down, and then coincidentally reminded the waiter not to put down the curtain to show innocence.
In fact, if it is an informal meeting meal, there is no need to take advantage of the noon out to tie up. Can be about an afternoon tea, served up on the exquisite look, the environment are also clean and pleasant, the price is also cheaper than the main meal. The face and the inside are there, the relaxed atmosphere also helps to promote the results.
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Order food is like KPI assessment, you have to have highlights
Will not order large dishes = petty.
I’m not teaching you fraud: how to make your KPI look good? The answer is that throughout the year you must have at least one or two outstanding work highlights, focus on 80% of the energy to do 20% of the things, the 20% made a colorful, A + is you.
The same is true for ordering food. In a table of dishes, there should be at least two or three big dishes. The so-called big dishes are not exactly the same as expensive dishes. The lunch break June once ate such a loss, came up to order an expensive foie gras sashimi, but the restaurant sashimi level is really bad, no sense of shock. Failure.
If you want to order, order the dish that can give a sense of shock. Sashimi can be ordered, but be sure that the sashimi plate is posh enough. The best is the kind of decorated into a bonsai, but also dry ice dazzling, so that people come up on the “wow”. The seafood is also a perennial stalk.
To be moderate, follow some old traditions, such as Guangdong is to have chicken and fish. Chicken to the whole chicken, white cut chicken, soy sauce chicken, such as the plate to see the whole chicken carcass. Fish should also be whole fish, a steamed fish effect, better than a large pot of sauerkraut fish.
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Know your own people, starting with a meal
Order food according to their own preferences = selfish.
Once brush the microblogging, a girl’s innocent complaints sparked anger. To the effect that their own order requires every dish without green onions, the results of the table clearly express dissatisfaction. Many netizens openly crusade: individual dishes require no green onions okay, all dishes do not put green onions? If I directly do not eat. This is an example of ordering a dish only from your own standpoint.
In “Dream of the Red Chamber”, the talent belongs to Lin Daiyu, but to learn to be Xue Baochai. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to see and what you like to eat, and she knows that the mother likes to watch lively plays and loves to eat sweet and rotten things, so she says this, and the horse’s ass is shot without a trace.
Although we do not want to be a heart dog, but sometimes just in the details of the consideration of others, you can easily lubricate the relationship, why not do?
The point of high emotional intelligence is empathy. If you are familiar with the people, preferences are generally clear. If less familiar, but also from the other side of the origin character and other aspects to figure out one or two. Then again, it is necessary to play the popular safety card. Pork brains, duck blood, bullfrogs, pupae, not everyone can accept, unless we really smell like a good friend, otherwise they feel good again do not order.
The most basic etiquette before ordering is to ask the other party what their taboos and preferences are, and to ask for permission before ordering a dish that you are not sure about. After the soup came up, half of the table shouted “Ah, seahorse! “, and then the other half put down the spoon in silence, pretending to be calm. It was a meal of surprise and shock ……
By the way, if you really can’t decide, just order the recommended dishes on the menu. If the recommended dishes are not good, then the level of the restaurant is also there.
Back to the example of putting onions. It is recommended to try not to use negative sentences for yourself when ordering, for example, “don’t put green onions” is better than For example, “no green onions” sounds more harsh than “less green onions”, and the other party will be able to find out the reason for the initiative to propose simply no green onions. The smartest way is to order a few dishes that are not likely to have green onions, and just eat them. Eat a few less dishes and will not die.
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Eat the wisdom of the combination with
Do not know how to match = poor management, low taste.
Order the most skillful skills, it is reflected in the ability to make a table meal across the mountain into a peak, near and far, different heights.
Ingredients should be staggered. Pork, beef, sheep, chicken, duck, fish, shrimp and such, each a dish is good. The same is true for vegetarian dishes. (Except for thematic banquets such as lamb feast.) Not long ago, I ate a Hubei dish, and it turned out that three of the ten dishes on the table were made from lotus roots. There was also a dish that was the root’s son – the root tip. It is suspected to be sarcastic that we “eat lotus root ugly”.
Types should also be staggered. Soup, soup and so is a line, stir-fry can have a number of, pot type up to two. Once, some people ordered a table of “pot” by magic. In front of all the black casserole filled with soup and water, without a breath, black clouds to destroy the city, is also very funny.
Must have leafy greens. Dessert is the icing on the cake and can be had to look vivid in the afterglow.
In short, when you order food, you have to have a sense of picture, to imagine what the picture is like after the dish you ordered is served. The color scheme is not too monotonous, the presentation is not too single, all should be considered.
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Finally, give the initiative back to the other party
Not knowing how to ask = headstrong.
Everyone doesn’t like to take responsibility, but they like to have a little control over things and are happy to be the one to make the final decision.
So when it comes to ordering entrees and drinks, you can put the initiative back in the other person’s hands by asking, “What would you like for the entrees? What would you like to drink? ” (Note that this sentence is to what, not to do not want) if the other party really do not want, will directly answer “no need ” “Eat food \ drink tea is fine”, if the mind already have ideas, at this time will also be proposed.
Finally, you can also leave a dish or two of flexible space, ask a: “Do you want to look again? “Even if the other party answered no, asking is better than not asking.
The opposite of what Lunch Break has experienced in this regard is my husband. Once to a long-cherished restaurant, want to eat what dishes I have long looked through the public review. Who knows, just sit down to go to the toilet, he quickly ordered the dishes, do not give me any leeway. Every single one of them is the opposite of what I want to eat. I was so angry that I wanted to get a divorce. Oh my God, now think about it or gas. You know what it’s like to be a foodie? (Far from it, this will come back …)
Yes, about ordering food, there is no axiom, there is no forced parameters. Whether it is the Royal Seafood Restaurant, or a small fly restaurant in front of the unit, are this model.
Like not long ago I took a group of people to morning tea, bland shrimp dumplings BBQ pork buns, were I point out the sense of rhythm, was praised “will order”.
(Secret: the signature shrimp dumplings and other safety cards on all points, plus a few variants of conventional products such as red rice to do the intestinal noodles, add clams to the egg tart to create a sense of high-end, and then add two or three kinds of sushi rolls, caramel eggs and other unconventional products to create a sense of jump, and finally pass the menu to everyone symbolically add a round.)
Really is not what thickology play mind, because in the end you will find yourself a simple act, you can make a table of people to eat and chat happy, is a very sense of accomplishment.
And you, too, will enjoy the likes of everyone to you, in return.
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