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					  <title><![CDATA[The Ten-Minute Sommelier A Wine Guide]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/48245/1/The-Ten-Minute-Sommelier-A-Wine-Guide/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Of course, if your restaurant is serious about serving wine, you will want to have a wine expert on hand. This kind of expert is called a "sommelier", which is French for wine steward. However, for the restaurant that wants to just keep a few bottles on the menu, a basic working knowledge of wine will be enough to get a grip on the subject.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Seven Steps to Your New Career]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/46838/1/Seven-Steps-to-Your-New-Career/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[What a terrible time to make life-affecting decisions the twenties are! Who to marry? How should we know, at age twenty they all look alike to us. Where to live? Well, we only know one town, the place we grew up, so how should we know if other places are better? What should we do for a career? Search us!]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Humor in Customer Service and How It Can Help Your Business]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/46459/1/Humor-in-Customer-Service-and-How-It-Can-Help-Your-Business/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Now, wait a minute. You are not a stage comedian or an actor. Your job is to sell something, not put on a clown act. How does humor fit into customer service?

And that's exactly why this works: Everybody thinks just like the above paragraph. Because everybody thinks that way, nobody uses humor to ease a customer transaction.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[How to Plan Your Company's Dress Code]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/46267/1/How-to-Plan-Your-Companys-Dress-Code/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[One of the milestones of a growing small business is the point at which you decide you need a dress code. It was all in good fun when you were just a shoestring start-up in a tiny store-front, and there was just five of you running around in jeans and polo shirts. But now you have enough staff that making them conform to a uniform standard of fashion.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[How to Identify With a Customer in Your Business Industry]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/46097/1/How-to-Identify-With-a-Customer-in-Your-Business-Industry/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[No matter what industry you work in, this can be applied to your line of work, especially in the hospitality industry.

Nearly half the jobs held at any given time are service positions. It's the way our economy works. The vital function of helping customers get the service and goods they want is pretty much everything that keeps the wheels going round.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[How to Deal with a Hostile Customer]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/45647/1/How-to-Deal-with-a-Hostile-Customer/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[Any job which involves customer service will, before long, involve a few unpleasant encounters with at least one customer who has a problem about something. There is a notable difference between customers who have an understandable complaint, and those who seem to just seem to have a personal problem.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Entering a Culinary Arts School]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/45353/1/Entering-a-Culinary-Arts-School/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[They say cooking is the first art. Before mankind learned to speak, draw, or write, he learned to prepare a meal. And this art is passed down to your generation, in the form of a wide and diverse field of culinary specialties to choose from. A cooking career is limitless; it can take you anywhere, and you can explore it all of your life and never find the end of it.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Designing a Restaurant Menu]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/45213/1/Designing-a-Restaurant-Menu/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[When you're a start-up business with a shoe-string budget, that photocopied sheet with a simple list of your dishes was enough to get by. But as your business grows and becomes more successful, the time will eventually come when somebody says, "Isn't it time we got a more professional-looking menu?"]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Are You Brave Enough to Find Your Ideal Career?]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.articlebasement.com/articles/44962/1/Are-You-Brave-Enough-to-Find-Your-Ideal-Career/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[What did you want to be when you grew up? Kids naturally do this; they try to imagine trying on different lives and decide what they want to do. They imagine very fanciful things when they are very young, and they lower their expectations until their teen age years, when they have enough schooling to realize just what hard work it will be to be an adult in a few years.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Advice on Picking and Developing a Career]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Have you wondered why it seems some people are so successful in their career and others are not? This is true, since most people who are unsuccessful in their career give up their hopes and dreams. These are the people who settle for something lower than their own capabilities would qualify them for.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Josh Stone)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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