Yes, I can remember my parents having fancy dinner parties where my siblings and I were allowed to stay up just long enough to sayhello, then shuffled off to our rooms.
If a bank can't spare anybody to work the doorway, says Marchese, "I tell branch managers to put a bell over the door and just have everybody on the teller line look up and sayhello, " the way chefs do in small sushi restaurants.
"It's much more interactive if the chef can come out and sayhello to the passengers rather than the crew just handing out menus and then food, " he says.