{"id":1250,"date":"2007-08-29T12:19:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T17:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2007-08-29T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T17:22:25","slug":"once-upon-a-bagel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon A Bagel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went into the Brueggers down the street from my office this morning.\u00a0 Locked the bike, walked inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Note to Bruegger’s:\u00a0 it’d be oh so cool <\/em>if you’d do a little division of labor behind the counter; maybe have a couple of the workers focus on making those fussy, nasty-looking breakfast sandwiches (that take like two minutes apiece to make), or filling the orders for the dozens and dozens of bagels (which seems to be about a three minute job), and have someone – even one <\/em>person – concentrate on grinding out the single bagels-with-cream-cheese that most of the people in line<\/em> came for, and take about fifteen seconds apiece to make.\u00a0 That way, all of us in-‘n-out quick-bagel guys can be on our way, shortening the overall wait in line appreciably.<\/li>\n
  2. Of course, it’d help if three of your shop’s six people weren’t standing around the cash wrap, gabbing away.<\/li>\n
  3. Note to the customer who stood in front of me this morning, talking to the Hmong girl who’d just finished an order of those loathsome sandwiches.\u00a0 You were hard to miss; you were wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet.\u00a0 As you gave your order.\u00a0 Your order sounded like “Mfmmmfmmrfmmfm”.\u00a0 Both the first time, and then when the Hmong girl gamely, tenaciously asked you to please repeat your order.\u00a0 It took three tries to get the order (naturally, for a loathsome, time-consuming sandwich) straight.\u00a0 While caution can certainly be amply rewarded, I might suggest that you perhaps sneak a little microphone under the face-shield, and attach it to a bullhorn of some sort.\u00a0 That, or remove the damn helmet, or at least cock it back to clear\u00a0 your mouth, long enough to give your (loathsome) order.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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