Here are some more suggestions for Meyers, et al. Asking for a credit card number when taking a reservation.
But as tens of thousands of travelers found out last week, airline Web sites, which are quite good at taking a reservation, are not so good — in a crisis — at keeping it.
THERE is one thing that a caller to the reservation desk at Lotus, a restaurant in the meatpacking district, is not going to find on the other end of the line: Someone to take a reservation.
At that, it became one of a number of New York restaurants where finding someone to take a reservation can be enough of an ordeal to make you want to settle for a Whopper.
Other restaurant problems he has pointed out include employees who pour the host the first glass of wine instead of the last or who display an ungrateful attitude while taking a reservation, he said.
The official, Masanori Miyahara, said Wednesday in a telephone interview that Japan "would have no choice but to take a reservation" — in effect, to ignore the ban and leave its market open to continued imports — if the species was granted most-endangered species status.
The negotiator, Masanori Miyahara, said in a telephone interview this week that Japan "would have no choice but to take a reservation" — in effect, to ignore the ban and leave its market open to continued imports — if the bluefin tuna were granted most-endangered species status.
Taking a reservation over the phone, for instance, she commented, "When I went to perfuming school in France they said, 'You're never going to sell anything with the name Nunberg!' So when I was eighteen years old they changed my name to Miriam Novalle".
"If you'd like to have a drink at the bar," said the person answering the telephone at Mas the other afternoon, apropos of nothing, after taking a reservation for the next evening, "we suggest you arrive 20 minutes early, so as not to delay your reservation time".
He asked me if I wanted to be put on a wait list for the night I had asked about, or if I wanted to take a reservation at an undesirable hour, but with a note made that I should be moved to a more desirable one upon the first cancellation.
