Agape

Agape. Unconditional love.
Yes, this does relate to restaurants the same way Memphis Raines does. Experiencing something that has such a profound impact in your life that it can be transferred and absorbed into your being. That was what I had when I went on the "Gulf Coast Walk to Emmaus #31 and sat at the table of Peter". I will proudly be forever know as that person.
I won't share the specifics, it is a private group and divulging information would or could ruin the experience for another. It's a spiritual retreat. Men go one week and , hopefully, their wives go the next week, although it is actually harder to get the men to commit. Doctors and religion are not big on our agenda.
On my weekend, I learned about the word agape. Peter and Jesus had a simple conversation in Greek. "Peter do you love me? (agape, unconditionally) "Yes, I love you like a friend." (he actually used a different word to respond) "Peter do you love me?" he asked again, same context. The response was the same in a variation. "Yes,I love you like a brother." The third time he asked is what I want to talk about.
I moved from "pilgrim" to worker by the next year and all the "walks" after my own. I think walk 34 was the first one and I was, naturally, a cook. And I learned what it was like to give your all to something you loved.

Service is agape. The restaurant business has 3 different stages of agape, answers, as Peter would attest.
The first being, I'll give you some service, bare bones minimum so I continue to draw a paycheck or get a fair tip for the service I provide. Unfortunately, this is what we usually get from a typical food service staff member. The cook doesn't want to lose their job, host, server, etc. Mistakes are okay after all, we're buds!
The second stage of agape. Largely, no mistakes. You got exactly what you ordered, with a refill of a drink, timely clearly of plates and maybe I asked if you wanted dessert. We are family and you can even see ketchup on a different table if you really needed it and I forgot.
But agape is more. Its the unconditional love of what we do.

It's the anticipation of what someone needs, be it a guest, employee, or community and making it something that causes them no distraction during their time with you without an expectation of anything in return.