Word: waitering
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Mike Medina, 51, a government employee in Menifee, Calif., cried for weeks after his first yearlong "daughters" left him and his wife Theresa, also 51. For the couple's anniversary, Domitelle from France and Carola from Germany had cooked them a surprise four-course dinner and served them in waiter costume while votive candles flickered. That was early on; the relationship got only better from there...
...Eisner's revealing notes and e-mails. Some of these incidents put Iger in a bad light just as the Disney board is considering CEO candidates. At the end of an argument between him and ABC chairman Lloyd Braun, Iger gets so agitated that he accidentally hits a waiter, who spills coffee down Iger's shirt. Not that Iger's own treatment was better. During a rough patch, Ovitz suggests that Eisner give Iger a gift to shore up his confidence. Eisner balks. "Don't you want him to be comfortable, happy in his job?" Ovitz asks. A beat passes...
Dining out can be a high-risk experience for the approximately 11 million Americans who suffer from food allergies. (Can I take the waiter's word that there isn't shellfish in my soup?) But help is on the way. "We're starting to see a sea change in how restaurants approach allergies," says Anne Munoz-Furlong, founder and CEO of Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. Burger King, for instance, posts allergy information on its website, hangs allergen-alert signs in franchises and is developing a staff allergy-training program. Outback Steakhouse advertises a gluten-free menu, and Flat Top Grill...
Swann graduated in 2002 as a newly minted cognitive scientist, but the job he finally got a few months later was as a waiter in Atlanta. He waited tables for the next year and a half. It proved to be a blessing in disguise. Swann says he learned more real-world skills working in restaurants than he ever did in school. "It taught me how to deal with people. What you learn as a waiter is how to treat people fairly, especially when they're in a bad situation." That's especially valuable in his current job as an insurance...
...self. His studies show that what you remember of an experience is particularly influenced by the emotional high and low points and by how it ends. So, if you were to randomly beep someone on vacation in Italy, you might catch that person waiting furiously for a slow-moving waiter to take an order or grousing about the high cost of the pottery. But if you ask when it's over, "How was the vacation in Italy?", the average person remembers the peak moments and how he or she felt at the end of the trip...