A. No short Skirts allowed
Almost all of the fine dining restaurants uptown follow stringent rules and regulations be it for the customers or be it for the staff. Following a proper predecided dress code is mandatory for the staff and decent dressing is expected of the visitors. There have been cases where visitors have been politely declined service and asked to visit other restaurants on account of indecent dressing or their dressing not matching the restaurant’s ambience.
B. No kids Allowed
Sadly, as adorable as kids may be, they’re not usually the most appealing dining companions. In fact, several restaurants find them so disagreeable that they’ve gone so far as to ban children from entering the restaurants. A hotel owner Mike Anderson, who also runs three other restaurants, told a news reporter: “It’s meant to be a spot for husband and wife to come and kind of reconnect in kind of a sexy setting…[without having] to interact with young children.” One of the Atlanta’s most popular hotels, Grant Central Pizza, too, has banned crying children.
C. Light Music
Each piece of background music for a restaurant ought to be chosen with as much care as each ingredient for the day’s specials. They may have equal effects on guests. Some places avoid songs with any lyrics. Some restaurants also make it a point to not give the floor to the same artiste for an entire CD.
D. Target customers basically rich and high-end people
As they say money makes money. It is easier to compete when the competitors are less. As there a much more casual dining restaurants compared to fine dining restaurants, competition is far more fierce for casual dining restaurants and comparatively lesser for fine dining restaurants. With a single economic slowdown, the casual dining restaurant’s businesses would suffer just like their “not-so-wealthy” customers who become frugal spenders at such times. Most of the wealthy people don’t as easily get affected by such slow downs and are still willing to spend for a fine dining experience.
E. Open for limited time Period
Yes, fine dining restaurants would usually have a stringent dress code. It’s important to find our or dress formally and conservatively to be on the safe side. What the visitors look like is a meaningful part of the ambience.