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Pizza staff learn to flirt

Pizza Express is teaching its staff how to flirt with customers in an attempt to relax them, The Telegraph reports.

The family-friendly restaurant, famous for serving up “bambinoccinos” – a cappuccino without the coffee for kids – has recruited classically trained actor Karl James to teach flirting and the art of chit-chat to staff to help them to butter up the restaurant’s customers.

Mr James is running a series of bespoke workshops with Pizza Express employees to help them improve the way they interact with people ahead of the launch of a new concept restaurant in Richmond, the Living Lab, due to open next week.

A source close to the company said: “With social media and texting reducing our face-to-face interaction, Pizza Express has enlisted the help of a conversational expert who is incorporating flirting and unique conversation techniques … into its new staff training scheme to help completely redefine the restaurant experience for customers.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .