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Does Always Telling the Truth Lose You Customers – Bar Restaurant

Sometimes You Must Lie to Survive – Bar Restaurant

Running a Bar Restaurant on the Costa Del Sol is a business and in business if you always tell the truth you’ll go bust!

It’s unfortunate that that is how life is, but it’s what you have to do.

Here’s an example of a typical dialogue that might occur between you and a customer who is unhappy about her daughter’s degree of liberty or the type of friends she is keeping:

Customer: Hi Graham! Was my daughter in last night?

Me: Yes! She popped in for a while. She was looking lovely.

Customer: Who was she with?

(Now she was with Sion, but you know that if you tell mum that, she’ll go straight back to her daughter and tell her and You’ll be stuck smack bang, right in the middle of a domestic. Here’s what you have to say in order to keep the peace:)

Me: Oh! she was with a group and I was really rushed off my feet and didn’t really notice who they were.

OK you haven’t scored a great hit with the young lady’s Mum, but you have diplomatically kept yourself impartial and importantly, you wont lose either the Mother or the daughter as customers in your bar restaurant.

As soon as you’ve made your diplomatic reply, change the subject or excuse yourself by saying something along the following lines:

Oooops! I’ve got something in the oven, must rush!

In such situations it’s better for business if you keep your answers short and vague.

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