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  • Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service

  • Treating Your Customers Life Royalty
  • By: Ari Weinzweig
  • Narrated by: Ari Weinzweig
  • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (116 ratings)

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Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service

By: Ari Weinzweig
Narrated by: Ari Weinzweig
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Publisher's summary

Do you really need another audiobook on customer service? There are hundreds you could choose from, and you've probably listened to at least a dozen. Why should you take advice from a deli with a funny name in Ann Arbor, Michigan?

Because the way Zingerman's teaches services is different, better, and more successful than the way others do it.

Because while most customer-service audiobooks give you philosophy and theory, Zingerman's tells you exactly what to do and exactly how to do it.

Because one of Zingerman's founding partners, Ari Weinzweig, has distilled the most important facts about effective customer service into concise and snappy formulas that are easy for you and the people who work with you to remember and use.

Discover:

  • Five elements of the Zingerman's approach
  • Three steps of great service
  • Five steps to handling customer complaints
  • Three ways to measure service
  • Five simple hiring tips

    Do you really need another audiobook on customer service? Yes! But after you listen to this one, you won't.

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    Great Philosophy and Entertaining Listen

    If you could sum up Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service in three words, what would they be?

    Simple Tasty Advice

    What other book might you compare Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service to and why?

    Legendary Service because they both thoroughly explain how simple and yet how difficult it is to implement good service company wide.

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    great book

    I love this book. I love the heartfelt authentic way that Zingerman's conducts business. This book is a great reminder of a great way running your business and going through life

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    Thank you Ari for the inspiration and practical advice

    Thank you Ari. This has definitely inspired me to serve my customers better. I love the lists, steps, and practical advice. I even like your calm tone of voice! I’ve never been to Zingerman’s but I’ll be there in three weeks. With a crew of personal training business owners. My mouth is already watering! Thank you for writing this book. As a one location business in a small town I am fired up!

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    BEST book on restaurant service

    I’ve now listened to and read dozens and dozens on restaurant guest service. This is by far the best. The rest of the Zingerman’s series are great too. Not just his story, actually very little about his story and the rest is real, usable, step by step information. Do not miss this one.

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    Great front line approach with simple explanation

    Ari is very efficient at getting his points across in an easy to swallow and easy to remember way.
    I found the book to be very helpful, and I feel a bit more confident in how to provide customer service without damaging my integrity and providing what has been promised.
    Thank you!

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    Inspiring and informative

    This book is a great introduction to operating a service business. It is a well written set of practical methods on how to build a company that values people, quality products AND profit. This audio book is packed full of wisdom, humor, humility and humanity - I especially love that it is read by the author!

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    Required Reading

    This book is required reading in our company. Short, simple and to the point on the power of exceptional customer service, not just in impressing customers but, perhaps more importantly, in creating an environment that fosters great company culture.

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    Worthwhile

    I thought this was useful. It's nice to see how a small business overcame the odds and made a difference. Ari doesn't doesn't brag about how he's the equivelent of the second coming like so many other business books. He readily admits that Zingerman's doesn't meet all the ideals they aspire to reach, but you can hear the sincere desire to contiously strive to be the best he and his team can be. I was also surprized to learn just how he was able to grow a tiny deli into a whoel series of related food businesses with 500+ employees and $30M in sales - all while staying in Ann Arbor, MI.

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    Excellent 5 Stars!!

    Customer Service principles and the development of systems for your customer service that can be used in any business, not just the food business. I have never been to this business but look forward to going. It’s refreshing to learn about how they do business and their continual striving for perfection. Great Book

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    Way boring

    This might be of interest if you're a restauranteur looking for minor details about their staffing structure and the like. But for any general reader or Zingerman's fan, it's exceptionally boring - like a self-congratulatory press release.

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