I finally played golf this weekend. If you’ve been following my tweets or taken note of the snide side comments in this space, you know I’ve not been happy about the layoff. In fact, the 90+ days of enforced time off (a layer of snow really does inhibit one’s ability to find a white golf ball as well as reduce how far that ball travels) did have a side benefit, one which I think might apply in some ways to business as well. Continue reading
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The Menu
Our Foodie Friday post this week is about the menu. I don’t know about you, but I always look forward to seeing the menu when we dine out since it tells me a lot about the chef as well as his staff. Are the dishes pretty much what you’d expect or do they demonstrate thought about available ingredients and take the diner into new territory? Is this the same old tired interpretations you’d expect or something new?
Mostly what I like about the menu is that it’s about possibilities. But it’s also about choices. You have to make up your mind about how many dishes, the mix of big plates and small, are you sharing with anyone else, etc. In short, it’s a great business lesson. Continue reading
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Losing the War
I had lunch today with Gelman to discuss pending areas of collaboration. We try and do this every so often and we also try to find new and unusual places to meet in order to expand our culinary universes. In the past we’ve tried sushi places, Chinese, a hot dog cart, a fish and chips shack – heck, lots of stuff.
Today we decided to go for pizza. We’d heard of a new place in the next town over (which apparently has power, unlike a good chunk of my town) and so we made plans to meet. I looked up their web site to get an idea of the menu and to find out where it is. And that’s where this place, like so many others, won the battle but lost the war. Continue reading
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