News Release for How to Deal with Stress: A Tasty Recipe for Moms
Date: December 8, 2012
For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Marya Charles Alexander at 1-800-299-1079
Outside the United States: (Your Country Calling Code) + 1 + 760-720-1011 or editor@solodining.com
Note to Editor/Journalist: Please visit the Press Room at SoloDining.com to see our Fact Sheet and Backgrounder
Sheet. The latter will tell you more about Marya Charles Alexander, the author of this publication.
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"Just show me a mom who doesn't DESERVE and NEED occasional TLC — especially
single moms!" says Solo Dining Expert
Weary from juggling work, family and household? Moms — rejoice!
It's time to discover why other moms e-mail Alexander: "Treating myself to a meal out alone is CHEAPER THAT
THERAPY!"
It's time to get in on a wondrous "me time" opportunity — the tasty way to
take a stress-break — and to indulge in the sublime pampering that can come with the
territory.
HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESS: A TASTY RECIPE TO THE RESCUE
— to the rescue! All it takes is know-how. You'll have a wealth of it by the time you
snack your way through empowering solo dining tips and strategies.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to "The Concept"
Introduction to the author
SOLO DINING TIPS & STRATEGIES TO REMEMBER AND TO USE
Dress for success
Reading in a fine restaurant
Cell phone use
"Entertainment" seating
Cultivate your wait person
Handling welcome overtures from other patrons
Dealing with unwelcome overtures (Important!)
Soothing neighboring diners, uncomfortable around a solo diner
Dining at popular, very hot restaurants
How much should a solo diner tip?
How to discover solo-friendly restaurants
SEATING: Solo diners have options galore!
Communal/community tables
Cocktail bars
Counter-bars
Table for one
"Shared" tables
Banquette seating
How to avoid undesirable seating (This is important!)
MAKING A RESERVATION AND HOW TO MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU!
HOW TO ENDEAR YOURSELF TO A RESTAURANT (A GLASS OF WINE IS FINE, BUT A BOTTLE WILL WIN
YOU FAVORS!
GOOD STUFF TO KNOW: PLUS OTHER GREAT REASONS TO DINE OUT ALONE BEYOND A "MOM'S
MINI-BREAK
"DINING OUT ALONE" BASICS FOR BEGINNERS (FOR THOSE WHO WANT/NEED THEM: REPETITION,
REPETITION . . .
MARYA'S STORY — PLUS BACKGROUND ON HOW/WHY SHE BECAME THE
SOLO DINING MAVEN
Don't jump into the deep end before you can swim!
Dining out alone revisited
Here's how my goal of becoming a comfortable solo diner evolved
"Project Lunch-out-alone" became "Project Dine-Out-Alone
Author Marya Charles Alexander believes that moms need to switch their focus "occasionally"
to themselves — to indulge in "something that helps you feel like 'you' again-refreshed,
reinvigorated and self-cherished. (A self-pampering meal out alone will do that!)
Surprising as it may seem, moms receive a bonus byproduct — they
discover they have MORE TO GIVE to those they love!
The 35-40 page (estimated) HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESS: A TASTY
RECIPE FOR MOMS — is available for $7.97 in two e-book
forms:
Kindle edition — To view, please
click: Kindle - How to Deal with Stress
Nook book — To view, please
click: Nook - How to Deal with Stress
News Release for 150-Plus Tips on How to Attract & Keep Solo Diners, 2nd Edition
Date: September 1, 2012
For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Marya Charles Alexander at 1-800-299-1079
Outside the United States: (Your Country Calling Code) + 1 + 760-720-1011 or editor@solodining.com
Note to Editor/Journalist: To view the table of contents for this publication, click Contents.
To view sample pages of this publication, click Tips. To view a selection
of highlights, click Important. To view restaurateurs' comments, click
Commentary.
Also please visit the Press Room at SoloDining.com to see our Fact
Sheet and Backgrounder Sheet. The latter will tell you more about
Marya Charles Alexander, the author of this publication.
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"A Stimulus Package for Restaurants? About Time!" Says Marketing Expert
Weary of discounting and price-cutting? Restaurateurs — rejoice! It's time to get back to doing what you do best
- cultivating potential customers! (People can cook just so many meals at home — even great ones! — before they
long to get out and about for something more.)
150-PLUS TIPS ON HOW TO ATTRACT AND KEEP SOLO DINERS, 2nd Edition —
is now available to help you take aim at a long-neglected hungry market.
This market is HUGE! Solo diners include singles, business and pleasure travelers, very-marrieds whose spouses
are out-of -town, divorced, widowed and MORE: Sooner or later EVERYONE faces the challenge of eating alone.
Updated, expanded and enriched with commentary from the internet, 150-PLUS TIPS, has been written with busy
restaurateurs in mind. View any section or devour the entire booklet for fresh insight into attracting and keeping
solos as repeat customers — alone or accompanied by friends or colleagues
Sections include: Solo Savvy in General — "Seating" to "greeting" suggestions;
Communal Table Logistics — What you need to know to attract solos (and couples) to communal table dining;
Counter/Bar Logistics — Mirrors & serpentine bars — can they work for you? plus a special Q &
A on working with the media. These are tools — emphasis: low or no-cost — to put into play today!
Author Marya Charles Alexander believes that restaurateurs are ready to sink their teeth into cultivating markets
rather than cutting prices. "An untapped market is a terrible waste — especially during economically-challenged
times."
The 49 page 150-Plus Tips On How to Attract & Keep Solo Diners, 2nd Edition (1st published in 1996)
is now available as a PDF file for $19.95.
See sample pages for FREE. They are located at http://www.solodining.com/samplepgs.html
You can order online by going to
http://www.solodining.com/150-plus-tips.html.
Major credit cards are accepted through PayPal.
News Release for 150-Plus Tips on How to Attract & Keep Solo
Diners, 2nd Edition
Date: September 1, 2012
For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Marya Charles Alexander at 1-800-299-1079
Outside the United States: (Your Country Calling Code) + 1 + 760-720-1011 or editor@solodining.com
Note to Editor/Journalist: To view the table of contents for this publication, click Contents.
To view sample pages of this publication, click Tips. To view a selection
of highlights, click Important. To view restaurateurs' comments, click
Commentary.
Also please visit the Press Room at SoloDining.com to see our Fact
Sheet and Backgrounder Sheet. The latter will tell you more about
Marya Charles Alexander, the author of this publication.
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Show "This" to The Owner of Your Favorite Restaurant (or ones you "wish"
were favorites)!!!
Weary of wishing that more restaurants were solo diner-friendly? Solo diners/wannabe solo diners — rejoice! It's
time to alert your favorites and more to what you hope for, pray for, and expect when you walk into a restaurant
alone. Why should restaurants care? Merely millions of reasons. Read on.
150-PLUS TIPS ON HOW TO ATTRACT AND KEEP SOLO DINERS, 2nd Edition — is now available to help them cultivate
a long-neglected hungry market — YOU!
In these tough economic times, you, in combination with others, make up numbers too vast to resist! Solo diners
include singles, business and pleasure travelers, very-marrieds whose spouses are out-of-town, divorced, widowed
and MORE: Sooner or later EVERYONE faces the challenge of eating alone.
Updated, expanded and enriched with commentary from the internet, 150-PLUS TIPS has been written with busy
restaurateurs in mind. They can view any section or devour the entire booklet for fresh insight into attracting
and keeping you as a repeat customer — alone or accompanied by friends or colleagues.
Sections include: Solo Savvy in General — "Seating" to "greeting" suggestions;
Communal Table Logistics — What restaurants need to know to attract solos (and couples) to communal
table dining; Counter/Bar Logistics — Mirrors & serpentine bars — why they please you
— plus a special Q & A on working with the media. These are tools — emphasis: low or no-cost
— they can put into play today!
Author Marya Charles Alexander believes that solo diners are ready to claim a "place at the table" —
individual, communal or???" and that restaurants are ready to welcome them. "An untapped market is a
terrible waste — especially during economically-challenged times."
The 49 page 150-Plus Tips On How to Attract & Keep Solo Diners, 2nd Edition (1st published in 1996)
is now available as a PDF file for $19.95.
See sample pages for FREE. They are located at http://www.solodining.com/samplepgs.html
You can order online by going to
http://www.solodining.com/150-plus-tips.html.
Major credit cards are accepted through PayPal.
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