Andrew Bergman
29 September, 2013
Identifying Rhetoric
For myself, this question type of
question comes naturally for me because I do actually work for a restaurant business. However I do not work for a family friend,
but rather a large retirement community.
In this example though, the exigence is clear. We want to make money this summer because we
need it and/or want it. We may need the
money for books for the next semester of classes, or so that we can afford a
trip of snow skiing in the winter.
Whatever the cause is, the reason we are writing the letter to our
family friend is so we can increase our money surplus. One thing we must also consider is our
audience, who is a family friend. We must
realize she is doing everything she can to keep her smaller business afloat in
a sea of competition. She has to make
the hard calls of what is good and what is bad for her company, and right now
she sees us as a bad investment.
However, we can prove to her that we would be a better investment than
she believes. For one, we have
experience. We know how the restaurant works. Each kitchen has its own way of doing things,
and we are already in that “groove” compared to a newly hired employee. Therefore, we do not need to be trained how
to do our job, which takes time and money.
In fact, we could even help train the new employees she has hired for
her company. The final way we could
overcome any constraints our family friend may have for us is by explaining how
we know the customers. We know “the
regulars” who come in and what they order, and may even know them
personally. This will help the customers
to feel more at home, and therefore want to come back and increase the
business.
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