How to entertain important guests

Friends gathering, colleagues gathering, that is a very frequent thing in our daily life, temporary intentions, say go away, but how to invite guests, especially if you want to feast on important guests, there are many details worth noting.

Carefully selected banquet restaurants

When choosing a banquet location, it is necessary to consider the age of important guests, such as, after 60 and older, you can choose an authentic and famous Chinese restaurant; after the banquet of 70, pay attention to the style and taste of the restaurant; the banquet after 80 is biased towards the theme of the restaurant, and the post-90s of the banquet is pursued to be fashionable, and it is best to have internet celebrity explosive light food or desserts.

It is necessary to learn from the Internet, such as Meituan's Black Pearl Restaurant Selection, Dianping and other apps to understand the past evaluation of alternative restaurants by diners. If the banquet is very important, then the most reliable thing is to call three or five confidants and go to the restaurant to try the dish. Finally, don't forget to prepare a few more alternatives.

Careful arrangement of escorts and wine tastings

China is a relatively complex social relationship, especially for the banquet of important guests, to pull out the list of accompanying personnel one by one, to seek the opinion of the guest of honor, after all, who to eat with is more important than what to eat, the number of people is best not more than 8.

What kind of wine to drink, white wine, red wine, or foreign wine, if it is a white wine is what the aroma type, these are best to communicate with the guest of honor in advance.

Invitations are sent three or four days in advance

Important guests should not be invited on the same day. Generally speaking, everyone's daily arrangement is very tight, and the temporary invitation is likely to bring trouble to the invitee and make people feel disrespectful.

The invitation time can not be too early, more than a week time is easy to forget, can not be too close, so as not to arrange the invitee can not open. Send out an invitation three or four days in advance, and remember to remind the other person once the day before or on the same day. If an invitation is required on the same day, a formal proposal must be made in advance.

Transfer of decision-making power to the invited party

The time, place, and participants of the invitation are best requested by the guest of honor first, which will also bring many rounds of pushing and giving, but this trouble is worth doing, and it conveys to the invitee that the guest cares a lot about the other party.

Unless the relationship is more familiar, usually the guest of honor does not easily ask for it, then the guest must say the homework he has done in advance for the guest to choose.

Order according to the rule of two and eight

The order should be arranged around the main guest, and it is best to let the guest of honor know that this dish is carefully arranged for him when he looks at it and eats it. Of course, take care of other people. 80% eat familiar dishes and the other 20% surprise. Don't avoid the Tao Dao is a big dish, the Dao Dao is a surprise, and the surprise is more than usual.

Pay attention to the two key points of grasping the order of serving

According to the famous psychologist Daniel Kahneman's "Law of the End of the Peak", the signature dish with the best taste and the most expensive price is placed in the penultimate place.

When serving this dish, the host must have a sense of ceremony, to introduce this dish to the guests, it is best to tell the story behind the dish, the most face-saving way is to ask the chef to come out to tell, so that the guest's experience "rushes to the peak", and when you think of this dish in the future, you will naturally think of this party.

At the time when the feast is "coming to an end", the ornamental value of desserts and fruits is very important, so that guests can leave with a beautiful experience, such as the fairy gas made of dry ice and precious imported ingredients, which can create the final sensory stimulation.

Finally, the host had better think of a theme for the meal, that is, the reason for the meal, so that the meal becomes meaningful, so that everyone can recall this night in the future, and there are many common memories and topics for future meetings.