Waitstaff training offered in area

AREA — A network of business and economic development organizations is offering training for wait staff. Tips for Tips is a three-hour workshop designed to help restaurant owners and managers build customer loyalty, maximize sales, create a sensational buzz about their restaurant, and provide an exceptional dining experience while helping wait staff increase their earnings.

Carl Lindblade is the workshop instructor. Carl is a hospitality management consultant and professor at the University of New Hampshire and White Mountains Community College and a delegate to the White House Conference on Travel and Tourism.

He is the former Director of the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development and has hands on success as general manager of several three and four diamond hotels, including the Black Point Inn in Scarborough.

The workshop is being held at the Bethel Inn, 21 Broad Street, on Tuesday, June 26, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The price is $20 for members of the Bethel, Oxford Hills or River Valley Chambers, $25 for non-Chamber members, and $10 for each additional member from the same business.

To register for the workshop, contact Mia Purcell at the Western Maine Economic Development Council, 739-6543 or mpurcell@community-concepts.org or go to WMEDC’s website www.wmedc.org and click on WMEDC Events.