Montreal Business Dinner
Talking business during dinner can be rewarding.

Montreal is booming with good business dinner restaurants. Many of our establishments offer elegant decor, high-quality food, trendy dinner menus and servers who know their menu well and who can quickly address any issues unsatisfied guests may have.

Lunch or Dinner

Montreal features a delectable variety of specialities, locally grown or produced. Venison and bison steaks, raw milk cheeses, maple sugar liqueurs, and, of course, smoked meat, bagels and “the decadent combination of French fries, gravy and cheese curds called Poutine.”

It might be important for you to end your meal with a cheese selection and Port or with a simple after-meal refreshment such as after dinner mints. But don't wait until the moment arrives, only to find that nothing of the sort is offered.

The Business Dinner Reservation

To avoid disappointments, make reservations before you start planning your business dinner in one of your favorite Montreal restaurants. You may also decide to polish your dinner party protocol so you can skillfully overcome anxiety while dining with potential employers or clients.

Before you begin your meeting scheduling, it may be a a good idea to get advance knowledge by making specific enquiries about menu, prices, access and special arrangements. You can check on the Web site of the dinner restaurant if the menu is advertised or, you can ask the restaurant to email or fax you a sample menu and a wine list.

Business Dinners Done Right

According to recent surveys, 49 percent of business executives said their most successful business meetings, outside the office, were conducted at a restaurant. Talking business during dinner can be rewarding. Executive directors also said that a person's table manners or lack thereof may be a deciding factor in securing a signed contract.

Dinner at Six or Dinner at Eight

You should leave a larger tip if you are a group of 6 or 8. For large groups however, the tip may be automatically incorporated into the total of the bill. If this is the case, you may leave 5% more if the restaurant is of the "fine dining" kind.

You should leave a larger tip if the orders of your group required several trips to the kitchen or if your guests ordered complicated dinner meals to fulfill. You should also leave a larger tip if you and your group stayed at the restaurant for a considerable amount of time resulting in a smaller turnover and less tips for your waiter.

And, you should leave a larger tip if you feel your server provided an excellent service, one that exceeded your expectations. Other people at the restaurant such as the valet parking attendant, the coat room attendant and the washroom attendant participate in making your visit satisfactory and pleasant. They are usually given a tip of 1 to 2 dollars.

The Business Dinner Service

Don't tip a lower amount if the food was not to your satisfaction unless you brought this to the attention of your server and this was ignored. The waiter is the messenger, not the chef. Also, if you feel that the server did an exceptional job with your order, don't think that verbally expressing your satisfaction replaces part of your business tip.

If you are unsatisfied with the service or with the server in any way, you can leave a smaller tip, but notify the server nicely so that s/he is made aware of the fact that the service was poor and you are not satisfied with it. This way s/he may decide to improve it and you, in turn, won't look like a miser.

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