having to break the ice with a food customer is vastly different than someone slinging hooch. you gotta be nice and depending on the person also keep it PG.
as a fried chicken food truck worker i always admired my boss. his go-to was hey there haha dont worry about us! we just look like this!
as an oyster shucker in a nice upscale but casual oyster bar people were always overwhelmed and intimidated so in order to flip the seat and maximize your potential tips which were foreign to me at first as an hourly line cook the extrovert act of kindly forcing them to crack a smile would commonly go something like “hey what do you call the two guys who hang out above your window treatments in your house!”
“Kurt and Rod”
i love it. i love puns and its so stereotypically corny that it makes them wonder if youre all there. then youre in you can give your pitch.
“what do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino?”
“hell if i know! what yall want to eat!?”
as a fried chicken food truck worker i always admired my boss. his go-to was hey there haha dont worry about us! we just look like this!
as an oyster shucker in a nice upscale but casual oyster bar people were always overwhelmed and intimidated so in order to flip the seat and maximize your potential tips which were foreign to me at first as an hourly line cook the extrovert act of kindly forcing them to crack a smile would commonly go something like “hey what do you call the two guys who hang out above your window treatments in your house!”
“Kurt and Rod”
i love it. i love puns and its so stereotypically corny that it makes them wonder if youre all there. then youre in you can give your pitch.
“what do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino?”
“hell if i know! what yall want to eat!?”