![]() ![]() ![]() This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: London restaurants are no different, said Jon Spiteri, a veteran of the capital’s fine-dining scene, and manager of the Holborn Dining Room, which opened recently at the Rosewood Hotel.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ‘‘But now, with computerised reservation systems, whenever anyone calls to make a booking, whoever answers the phone has access to who these people are and what they like.’’ ![]() ‘‘It used to be that the maitre d’ kept all those notes in his head,’’ Citrin said. Josiah Citrin, the chef/owner of Melisse, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Santa Monica, said his staff take copious notes on all their diners – likes and dislikes, professions or special occasions – and log them in the restaurant’s database. ‘‘We make a lot of calls between our restaurants to ask, ‘Do you know this person?’,’’ Spillane said. Spago is the flagship for chef Wolfgang Puck’s worldwide fine-dining group, and its staff regularly share information about jet-setting guests with their sister restaurants in other cities. ‘‘They may not have shared it with the restaurant, but if someone says on Twitter, ‘Going to Spago tonight, celebrating a birthday’, it’s an opportunity for us to. ‘‘Google is everyone’s best friend,’’ said Tracey Spillane, general manager of Spago, the legendary Beverly Hills celebrity haunt. ‘‘If I find out a guest is from Montana, and I know we have a server from there,’’ he said, ‘‘we’ll put them together.’’Īt least one commentator likened the practice to stalking, but insiders say anticipation is key to good service – and knowing a little about your guests can make a big improvement. If someone has Instagrammed a vineyard, his staff will refamiliarise themselves with the 131-page wine list. If it’s someone’s birthday, he’ll know to greet them with a ‘‘Happy Birthday’’ if it’s a couple’s anniversary, he tries to work out which one. Researching online the names in the reservations book is common practice at most top restaurants, but many diners were apparently unaware of it until recently, when New York magazine featured a behind-the-scenes report about one award-winning Manhattan establishment, Eleven Madison Park.Įvery day before service, the maitre d’, Justin Roller, Googles each guest in search of personal information he can use to enhance his or her evening. It’s perfectly possible, though, that a modern maitre d’ will have boned up on your biography using Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and/or LinkedIn, well before you walk through the door. When you go to a restaurant, you rarely expect the staff to know more about you than does the person you are taking out for dinner. Good evening, I’m Alfredo Your name is Barbara, you are a lawyer, you have two children, you like a drop, you’re on Facebook and Twitter, you’re into travel and opera, you like prosecco (a lot) and whitebait and Scandi-noir, you’ve never really got on with your boss. ![]()
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