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An Intimate Affair

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Following my last post which offered advice about how to put on a good Christmas party for your regular clients; I would now like to talk briefly about how you could build your party into a more intimate occasion, with a clubby feel about it, involving some of your most stalwart regulars,

After a full year of trading you will have developed quite strong bonds with some of your regular clients and you’ll find that some of them will be really keen to get involved in helping organise your party. These regulars will want the party to be pretty much exclusive and they’ll want to help you create that all important “clubby” atmosphere.

One way they’ll want to contribute is by bringing in Christmas decorations, prior to the party and helping to put them up.

The second way in which they’ll want to get involved is by making their favourite dishes to bring along to the party. You should really encourage clients to do this, as they will surprise you with their expertise in this area.

Whatever regional speciality a client can cook and bring along will really add to your party’s success, whilst allowing your client to feel a sense of both pride in their creation and also to really feel part of the inner sanctum of your bar and restaurant business. In the photo, you can see Seared Jumbo Scallops, wrapped in Pancetta, which was brought in by our regular customer, Dori.

People love to feel that they belong to their regular favourite drinking place.

Lastly! Don’t expect any help with the clearing up. You should have paid workers ready to do that, but I will admit that at our bar, we do have wonderful people who do muck-in and help with a lot of the clearing up, whilst both the waitresses and I do most of the washing up.

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