Service can be described as a performance of some kind involving two parties whereby one party is the benefactor and the other party is the performing party receiving some type of monetary payment. The value of the Service depends on the personal experience of the benefactor.
When I looked it up in Websters, there it was #11 out of 31 definitions. The payment part was not included, but the key word mentioned was performance.
As I relate this to restaurants, its so easy to see why dining room service is excellent training for actors, since theyre performing all of the time. There might be days when their energy level is low, yet they are still expected to perform on the show stage at night. It is not much different for dining room service staff whose livelihood depends quite a bit on how they look and act before many people per night. The word performance makes a lot of sense when relating it to other Service fields such as medical, legal, financial and armed, even in religion theyre called prayer services.
With increased human knowledge and modern inventions, the term Customer Service has evolved over time. Whenever a new technology is invented, an array...