{"id":758,"date":"2007-07-30T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/if-only-there-w\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T05:07:00","slug":"if-only-there-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/if-only-there-w\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only There Were No Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught this today from one of my favorite writers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winespectator.com\/Wine\/Home\/0,1137,,00.html\">Wine Spectator<\/a>.&nbsp; Jim Laube writes about a personal experience with bad attitude service (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winespectator.com\/Wine\/Blogs\/Blog_Main\/0,4210,1,00.html\">&quot;Attitude Can Spoil A Dinner, Too&quot;<\/a>).&nbsp; Considering my post on <a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/epic_living\/2007\/07\/praise-for-atts.html\">AT&amp;T<\/a>, I thought Jim&#8217;s piece was certainly a connector.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Do companies (large and small) vex over customers?&nbsp; Do they stand in the back room or boardroom and lament over those pesky\/demanding customers?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a news flash; <strong>no customer = no business!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I thought I would point you to Jim Logan&#8217;s blog also.&nbsp; His post on &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jslogan.com\/content\/view\/210\/\">&quot;What&#8217;s More Important In Business&quot;<\/a> is spot on.&nbsp; Jim understands what businesses must do to get it right.&nbsp; Maybe he should get with Jim Laube at Wine Spectator to find out the name and owner of that restaurant.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You know&#8230;the one that seems bothered by customers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught this today from one of my favorite writers at Wine Spectator.&nbsp; Jim Laube writes about a personal experience with bad attitude service (&quot;Attitude Can Spoil A Dinner, Too&quot;).&nbsp; Considering my post on AT&amp;T, I thought Jim&#8217;s piece was certainly a connector.&nbsp; Do companies (large and small) vex over customers?&nbsp; Do they stand in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}