Memory training - how to memorize orders! (2024)

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Memory training - how to memorize orders!? ›

The best way to practise this technique is to play memory games or solve Sudoku puzzles very often - this is where you use exactly the part of your brain that you need for chunking. Other waiters prefer to remember orders visually - they internalize the place, the person and the drink in their mind's eye.

Use mnemonics.

For example, many children learned the order of operations in math by using the sentence Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (parentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract). Check out Wikipedia for a good list of examples and ideas.

It's like remembering the name of anything. The more interaction you have with it the better you can remember. In my restaurants we always number them clockwise around the room. So long as you know which one is Table 1 you can work it out.

To remember something you can practice the 7-3-2-1 technique which has you read the information you want to memorize today (1), tomorrow (2), the day after tomorrow (3), and one week after the first reading (7).

This technique is typically seen in response to a reading or a lesson, and it's an organized and focused way for you to review your notes and test your memory. You write down 3 things you learned, 2 things that made you curious or confused, and 1 thing that you learned or should do with what you learned.

The Memory Palace technique is a memorization strategy, based on visualizations of familiar spatial environments to recall information. “Loci” is the Latin term which means “places” or “locations”. The technique involves envisioning a location or physical space that you are extremely familiar with.

How do waiters memorize orders? ›

This type of association is called "chunking" - waiters memorize small pieces of information (the person ordering, the table number and the order itself) and combine these pieces into a short story or even just a sentence that they can recall.

What are mnemonic techniques? Mnemonic techniques are ways to help you memorize a phrase or idea with patterns. Mnemonic techniques can include songs, poems, rhymes, outlines, images and acronyms. Mnemonics give meaning to something ordinary to make it more memorable when you try to recall it.

Hence, it could be concluded that the correct sequence of 'Process of Memory' is encoding, retention, and retrieval.

Memory processing involves three consecutive steps: encoding, storage, and retrieval.