Archive for the ‘Restaurant Entertainment’
Restaurant Work: Learning from the Hard Knox
Working in a restaurant will present you with numerous challenges as a performer. By writing down what happened at your event, you can improve yourself as an entertainer. Though this is true at any event, my experience has shown restaurants to be the most enlightening. Recently I had a restaurant gig where I had a [...]
A Step by Step Guide to Pitching a Restaurant
Walk inside to the bar. Start twisting. Make a simple, but impressive balloon. When someone asks you what is going on, ask if the General Manager is in. If so, twist until they arrive. If not, ask for a card and see if a shift manager is in. Pitch to Shift Manager and ask when [...]
Secret Sales Tactic for Restaurants
When I go out to pitch restaurants, I expect to walk away with at least one tryout at the very minimum. So, a lot of times I’ll make it my goal to get a tryout before I allow myself to have lunch. Thursday I woke up hungry, skipped breakfast, met up with my associate, and [...]
10 Tips to Keep a Restaurant Client Happy
The following are the basic guidelines I use and teach to those interested in restaurant entertainment. This is just the short list of basic guidelines that act as a preamble before the full chunk of the manual is reviewed. I provide them here as a list of suggestions for others interested in working restaurants as [...]
Success is 99% Failure. – Soichiro Honda
The greatest asset in this business is failure. That’s right! –Failure. I know some of you are thinking that I am insane, but I want you to try and hear me out. First off, what is failure to a balloon artist? Is it when a balloon pops? It is when a design doesn’t look as [...]
Comedic Conversation from a Balloon Artists
In my world of comedic balloon entertaining, I try to find humor in topics that people don’t normally think about. I know comedy is very subjective, but with the proper wording, timing and presentation you can take a subject of, a parents love for their child, and put a twist on it so it becomes [...]
Boogers and Farts Rank High on the Laugh-O-Meter with Kids
Performing at restaurants allows for comedic interaction with the customers that is only restricted by the age of the audience. I have learned over the years that humor is objective and what I find funny may not be funny to others. However, when it comes to kids–body functions and human excretions are high on the [...]
It not Child Abuse, its Entertainment
It was a busy Wednesday night at Aurelio’s pizza in Griffith Indiana. I was circulating the dining room entertaining the local families with balloon animals when I came upon a family of four. The mom was correcting her child for his overzealous behavior of antagonizing his sister. I walked over to the table to see [...]
I Cannot Pay my Bills, I am Unemployed or Just Retired so I will Twist Balloon Animals and Make Money as my New Job
While twisting balloon animals at a restaurant, a customer will turn to a friends and say, “Hey, Bob that’s a job for you, twisting balloons animals.” What did I do to give them the impression that my skills were so common that a layman can just pickup a bag of balloons and twist animals? Yes, [...]
Sunday Night’s at Crete Aurelio’s
Magical Balloon-dude Dale will be preforming his comedic balloon twisting at the Crete Aurelio’s on Saturday Nights. Bring the family out for the famous Aurelio’s pizza and be entertainer by one of Chicaogland’s best balloon entertainers Magical Balloon-dude Dale. Dale will be roaming the restaurant from 6:00-8:00 pm so bring the entire family for good [...]
