In case you are wondering, "moshi moshi" is the standard Japanese phone greeting.
It is also confronting the grim reality that, in a world filled with e-mail and cell phones, greeting card sales are flat.
Today, Andrea is working the morning shift – answering phones, greeting guests, cleaning rooms and preparing the dolls for customers.
As for the service, a lone waitress did everything during our visits, and did it well: greeting customers, answering the phone, dealing with take-out orders and waiting on the whole room (there are 10 tables).
Zabar, a short, youngish-looking man with gray hair and a lot of nervous energy, paced around, talking on his cell phone and greeting customers, many of whom he knew from Manhattan.
Even Wood was surprised when she managed to persuade Chris Noth to join the cast as the lawyer – particularly after greeting him on the phone with what she says is Noth's least favourite form of address, "Mr Big!!!" He said yes after reading the script and in spite of the tiny budget and frenetic four-week filming schedule.
Prosecutors in the Queens district attorney's office say her role in the crime, on Sept. 1, 2000, was crucial: ordering the food with her cellular phone and greeting the deliveryman when he arrived, as the boys hid in the bushes, armed with a brick.
It's these stories that you remember, not Chris Velazco's smiling face greeting you in the phone section.
Or greeting me on the phone with this bizarre but ultra-endearing salutation: "Top of the day to you".
According to Ryan, the task of answering the phones and greeting visitors keeps ego out of the company, cements relationships between employees and reinforces community.
