Dinner tonight along with tuna, spinach salad, and quinoa.
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14-hour workday and takeout Thai food for dinner. Now I feel like a true 20-something.
Everywhere at Once: Chef Geoff Tracy’s Data-Driven Empire. Geoff Tracy and his brother use a set of 800 standards to measure the performance of their restaurants. A couple examples:
Did Elizabeth bring your Pinot Gris within three minutes of the time you ordered it? Were your appetizers delivered within seven minutes, entrées within ten, desserts within seven? Were these plates described at the table before they were set in front of you? Were napkins refolded when you went to the restroom? Was non-bottled water referred to as “ice water” (correct) or “water” (incorrect)?
The Strongest Man in the World:
In the past five years, Shaw has added more than a hundred pounds to the svelte three hundred that he weighed at his first contest. “It gets old, it really does,” he said. “Sometimes you’re not hungry, but you have to eat anyway. Training is easy compared to that.” Pudzianowski once told an interviewer that his typical breakfast consisted of ten eggs and two to three pounds of bacon. “Between meals, I eat lots of candy,” he said.
The article is full of things that make you wonder how in the world someone can do that.
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Original plan this morning was to hike Table Mountain with Daniel and Leah. The weather prevented that, though, so the backup plan was raspberry pancakes with vanilla ice cream. Yum.