Looking for better service and a friendlier dining experience? Try these thoughtful gestures and helpful habits to elevate your future restaurant visits.

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This week from the archives: how to stand out at a talent show, how to go to the bathroom during an important phone call, and an unlikely way to check the Wifi on a plane. Plus a “where is he now” 12 ...

There are few greater pleasures in life than dining out. The table is set, the food is cooked by somebody else, filling the dishwasher is somebody else’s problem, and if you choose wisely, the food ...

The Social Security Administration’s acting inspector general has opened a review of the agency’s call center wait times and its ability to deliver services to Americans. The investigation was ...

Star exclusively learned that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are not as amicable as one would expect after their divorce. A source recently dished that the musician has stopped leaving her ex-husband ...

For decades, familiar copper-based telephone lines—known as Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS, have reliably powered communication nationwide. But those days are ending. POTS lines are being ...

FILE - A woman looks at a hand held device on a train in New Jersey on May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) (Jenny Kane, Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All ...

When was the last time you turned over your phone (or put it in your pocket) and gazed into the eyes of your beloved for the duration of an entire dinner? It might be longer than you care to admit. Or ...

You’d think by now it would be second nature—but somehow, it’s not. And I agree with you: what really makes me shake my head is when the second phone goes off. If you heard the first one, wouldn’t ...

A funeral doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. In fact, more and more people are accepting funerals as celebrations of life rather than somber affairs. Although there are times to be solemn, “humor ...

Social Security’s acting commissioner recently said out loud what many beneficiaries are thinking these days — the agency’s telephone customer service can “suck.” “We need to show how bad we suck on ...