ALISON BEARD: I’m Alison Beard.
ADI IGNATIUS: I’m Adi Ignatius, and that is the HBR IdeaCast.
ALISON BEARD: Adi, when a enterprise is small, constructing an amazing company tradition can really feel comparatively simple. Leaders are near their staff and clients. They’ll see what’s occurring on the entrance traces and intervene when one thing feels off, however what occurs when the group will get a lot, a lot greater?
ADI IGNATIUS: So yeah, this can be a basic enterprise dilemma, and I believe a number of firms get it mistaken regardless that they perceive the chance. They make trade-offs for effectivity and profitability. They add layers of administration. They neglect about what made the enterprise particular within the first place.
ALISON BEARD: Precisely. So becoming a member of me as we speak is Danny Meyer, the restaurateur who based and scaled Shake Shack, in addition to an acclaimed superb eating group, and the writer of a brand new e book referred to as What Might Probably Go Proper? The Important Journey to Scale an Enduring Tradition.
In an especially demanding trade—we’re speaking about Michelin-starred Manhattan eating places to a world burger chain—he’s stayed profitable for many years, however he’s additionally actually candid in regards to the errors that he’s made and corrected alongside the way in which.
I talked with him in regards to the constructing blocks of a powerful organizational tradition, the frameworks he makes use of to make sure that various, dispersed groups keep on the identical web page, and when a pacesetter ought to step in versus step again. Right here’s our dialog.
So while you first began out along with your first restaurant, Union Sq. Cafe, how did you articulate the tradition that you just needed to create and get the crew to efficiently execute on it?
DANNY MEYER: I didn’t. I by no means articulated something to anyone as a result of I didn’t know the very first thing about opening a restaurant, beginning a enterprise. I simply did what got here naturally to me and what was intuitive. I believe over time I began to make use of my phrases, as we used to show our children, as a substitute of simply attempting to embody the behaviors I needed to see. I actually was attempting to let folks know what they had been, and that’s when issues began to get fairly good as a result of it’s not honest to ask your crew members to be guessers as to what actually issues.
ALISON BEARD: You discuss this concept of enlightened hospitality. Clarify what you imply by that?
DANNY MEYER: So the concept of enlightened hospitality the truth is occurred to me after I opened my second restaurant, which was Gramercy Tavern, nearly 10 years after opening Union Sq. Cafe. It didn’t really feel proper to me in there, and I couldn’t work out why. For the primary time in my profession, I used to be not 100% of the time on the entrance door in a single restaurant. So I used to be going forwards and backwards, and if I’ve discovered one factor about tradition all these years later, tradition’s what occurs while you’re not within the room. And half the time I used to be not within the room, and I had not finished job of defining it. There was one terrible day, a Union Sq. Cafe common dined at Gramercy Tavern, and he or she got here as much as me livid after her meal and he or she stated, “What I simply skilled by no means would’ve occurred at Union Sq. Cafe.” And he or she was actually speaking a few horrible lapse in hospitality.
She went into nice element about what we had finished, and I used to be so upset with myself as a result of I spotted I had by no means actually clarified our tradition to our crew at Gramercy Tavern. And I hosted an all-staff assembly the very subsequent day, and that’s after I coined the expression, enlightened hospitality. And I stated, “Guys, from this second on, we’re within the enterprise of hospitality. Sure, we’re going to all the time attempt to make our meals significantly better. We’re going to all the time attempt to have higher wines on our wine record, however when somebody pays their invoice on the finish of a meal right here, what they’re paying us for isn’t the meals and wine. You bought to faux all that stuff was free. What they’re paying us for is how we made them really feel, hospitality.” Right here’s what hospitality means to me: It implies that the individual on the receiving finish of your service really believes that you just had been on their facet. And I’ll take it a step additional, guys. Our first buyer is us.
And I coined the expression, the virtuous cycle of enlightened hospitality. And I stated, “I do know for a incontrovertible fact that the way in which you deal with one another goes to instantly affect how our visitors really feel handled. And if in case you have a lapse in the way you care thoughtfully for each other, our visitors will really feel that. And so enlightened hospitality, I informed them, was principally taking all 5 of our stakeholders and making a virtuous cycle the place the enter could be each other, adopted by our visitors, adopted by the neighborhood by which we do enterprise, adopted by our suppliers, adopted by our traders. And should you break this anyplace, you break the entire thing. All of that got here to me in a match of anger over how poorly we had handled a visitor the day earlier than. That has been the blueprint for each single restaurant we’ve ever opened since, and other people don’t need to guess anymore what issues to me.
ALISON BEARD: Yeah. So how do you translate that ethos into values or particular behaviors that you just wish to see?
DANNY MEYER: Nicely, that’s one other factor that I didn’t do an excellent job of for a lot of, a few years. It was fixed studying by doing, and a number of the doing, I used to be falling down and getting myself again up.
However the first iteration was I stated, “I do know what I have to do. I would like to ascertain what are our household values.” And anyone actually good stated, “Okay, that’s a good suggestion, Danny. You must actually crowdsource these household values from the crew. So as a substitute of being a top-down factor, all people may have some pores and skin within the recreation.” And so I did that, and this was most likely 15 years in the past or one thing. I acquired most likely 60 solutions, and we had been so good. We created a phrase cloud, printed it on espresso mugs and gave it to each chief within the firm with 60 phrases on it. It was every part from enthusiasm, neighborhood, spirit, seasonal. After which one other marketing consultant got here to me and so they stated, “You’ll be able to’t do this. You’ll be able to’t count on folks to recollect 60 totally different values.”
And so we spent three days locked up in a room bucketing these 60 values into 4. And the 4 household values we got here up with, which may very well be values for anyone’s firm, had been excellence, doing the factor you do in addition to you are able to do it, a bit bit higher than you probably did it yesterday; hospitality, doing it in a approach that made different folks really feel higher; entrepreneurial spirit, figuring out issues earlier than others establish them and developing with a recent resolution; and integrity, having the judgment to do the suitable factor even when nobody else is trying and even when it is probably not in your personal self-interest. So we had these 4 household values.
After which we had a very vital aha second. We had an outdoor speaker, a man who’s a good friend, his identify is Dov Seidman. He’s the founding father of The HOW Institute. Dov got here to talk to my senior leaders and he stated, “Guys, the businesses that succeed on this subsequent era are usually not going to be those that outperform their competitors. They’re going to be those that outbehave their competitors.” I had by no means considered that. So with that nugget, I went again with my crew, and we stated, “You understand what? We should always actually scrap household values, and as a substitute we should always change household values with anticipated behaviors.”
And this was some of the highly effective issues we’ve ever finished by way of taking a quantum leap ahead for our tradition, was that household values is a giant drawback. We aren’t a household. We’re a enterprise. It was disingenuous of me to counsel that we had been a household. Sure, should you’ve ever labored in a restaurant, there are issues that really feel good.
You sit down and you’ve got one thing referred to as household meal with all people else who works on the employees, however you recognize what? Typically you bought to fireside anyone in a enterprise. You don’t hearth a member of the family. Your loopy uncle nonetheless will get invited again to Thanksgiving dinner, however you can’t do this in a enterprise. And so second drawback moreover it was household is that it’s actually onerous to carry somebody accountable to a price. After which third drawback was is that the 4 household values we had, once more, this by way of advancing tradition, may have been any firm on this planet. Who would argue with wanting your corporation to be extra wonderful, extra hospitable, higher entrepreneurial spirit and exemplifying integrity? So what we did was we took all the anticipated behaviors from tales that had been really in my first e book, Setting the Desk, tales that had been uniquely ours, and that’s once we actually hit go on this entire factor.
ALISON BEARD: So what’s an instance of an anticipated conduct distilled from the enlightened hospitality and the household values?
DANNY MEYER: One which I actually love is known as “middle the salt shaker” with an unwavering dedication to excellence, and centering the salt shaker implies that you’re doing issues the way in which they’re purported to be finished. In order that’s one. And if I had been to say salt shaker to anybody in our entire firm, hundreds of individuals, after which should you add Shake Shack in lots of, many extra hundreds of individuals, they are going to really be capable to take a look at a salt shaker and know what meaning.
ALISON BEARD: So I think about that discovering individuals who will adhere to these behaviors begins with hiring, proper?
DANNY MEYER: Yeah. We are going to by no means be any higher than the standard and the emotional expertise along with the technical expertise of the individuals who we’ve employed to be on our crew, and so our recipe is 49 components technical prowess and 51 components hospitality expertise.
I discovered that if we’re simply hiring the one that’s the very best cook dinner, however they’re not nice for the crew based mostly on who they’re whereas they’re doing that cooking, it’s a lose. And we’ve all made excuses for people who find themselves nice at what they do, regardless that they’re not nice for the tradition. In order that’s why once we rent anyone, we’re very particular about what the emotional expertise are we’re searching for as a result of, fairly frankly, we’re significantly better at figuring out these once we interview than we’re at altering them as soon as anyone’s really on the crew.
ALISON BEARD: This appears like one thing that you just developed over time.
DANNY MEYER: Nicely, I knew the sort of people that labored actually, rather well. I knew the sort of those that didn’t work as properly or work out as properly. And it was actually only a matter of, for the primary time in my life, saying, “Cease being intuitive about every part, and begin being intentional about every part”.
“Who’re the ten or 20 most profitable servers you’ve ever had at Union Sq. Cafe? Who’re the ten or 20 most profitable cooks you’ve ever had? And what was it about them that made me really feel so good? What are the emotional expertise that all of them have in frequent?” And while you put all of them collectively, they added as much as one thing that I named the hospitality quotient, and these are individuals who have a excessive HQ, are people who find themselves really happier themselves once they make different folks really feel higher. That doesn’t say a factor a few good bookkeeper, sommelier, or do they know the way to make pasta?
ALISON BEARD: Proper.
DANNY MEYER: It’s all about their wiring. We began calling these folks 51 percenters. Then I spotted that that wasn’t even sufficient as a result of we acquired actually, actually good at hiring 51 percenters, typically on the expense of hiring what I now name 100 percenters. It wasn’t doing any good to rent individuals who had been solely good on the emotional expertise, however didn’t know the way to cook dinner very properly. However now what we’re actually good at is hiring the entire thing as a result of we wish to get 100 on our check.
ALISON BEARD: Yeah. As somebody who frequented the Union Sq. Cafe from ’99 to 2004, I’ll say that the one factor I keep in mind probably the most aside from the scrumptious tuna is the truth that the servers appeared to like their job and so they had been actually good at it. This hospitality quotient is vital not only for folks in client going through roles, but in addition for folks within the company workplaces who have to be hospitable to their colleagues, proper?
DANNY MEYER: Yeah, any enterprise on earth is barely nearly as good as its crew. That’s the actual competitors is getting the strongest crew, and I simply don’t know anybody who would fairly work with individuals who, along with how good they’re at their job, aren’t additionally good for the way it feels to work there. Look, I’m really a sports activities fan, and positive, you’re taking a sport like baseball the place they measure each statistic of what’s occurring on the sphere and the workplace employees of baseball groups have gotten actually professional at coping with that knowledge, however the bizarre factor is that baseball is a recreation the place you spend half the sport within the dugout. There’s not one statistic I’m conscious of in baseball that measures who’re you within the dugout? Which means who’re you for the remainder of your crew? Are your behaviors really bringing out the very best in all people else in your crew?
ALISON BEARD: They do have that in basketball, which may be very attention-grabbing. It’s such as you’re-
DANNY MEYER: Actually?
ALISON BEARD: … plus, minus. Yeah.
DANNY MEYER: Nicely-
ALISON BEARD: Completely.
DANNY MEYER: … I do perceive the plus, minus by way of … Nicely, I perceive in hockey while you’re on the ice, what number of targets had been scored while you had been on the ice versus what number of targets had been scored in your crew? However I don’t suppose I’ve seen that with respect to what occurs while you’re on the bench. In order that’s-
ALISON BEARD: Yeah, they don’t measure who’s locker room man, proper?
DANNY MEYER: That’s what I’m speaking about.
ALISON BEARD: Yeah, precisely. So what are the six parts of HQ?
DANNY MEYER: The primary one is variety to optimism, and you’ll take a look at somebody’s eyes and see if they’ve variety eyes, however I additionally suppose optimism, which is a primary cousin to hope, you need somebody who really believes that they’ll influence issues for the higher. The second emotional talent we search for is curiosity, curious intelligence. We’re not interested by hiring know-it-alls. We love hiring learn-it-alls. The third emotional talent is figure ethic. We are able to educate anyone the way to set a desk, however we are able to’t educate most individuals the way to care about doing their job in addition to it may be finished. The fourth emotional talent we search for is empathy, which is having the distinctive capacity to think about what it is likely to be prefer to stroll in another person’s footwear. And I take into consideration the golden rule that I used to be introduced up with rising up in St. Louis was all the time do unto others as you need others to do unto you.
ALISON BEARD: Sure.
DANNY MEYER: That’s the golden rule I discovered.
ALISON BEARD: Proper.
DANNY MEYER: My golden rule, I name it the golden rule of hospitality, is do unto others as you imagine they’d need finished beneath them. And it’s very totally different as a result of we’re all totally different. So I don’t impose my desires on you. I attempt to think about as an empathetic individual, what do you want? What would you like? And the subsequent emotional talent is self-awareness, which is what’s making me tick as we speak? What facet of the mattress did I get up on? Hospitality is a crew sport. So understanding what my private climate report is and understanding the way to guarantee that that works for my crew and never in opposition to my crew. After which lastly, integrity, which is having the judgment to do the suitable factor even when nobody else is trying and even when it is probably not in your personal self-interest.
ALISON BEARD: So that you talked about your hesitation at desirous to increase, and also you expanded not solely to form of extra eating places in New York, however then Shake Shack, which is a worldwide chain now. So why did you or how did you get comfy making that leap and never being completely in contact with each a part of your corporation?
DANNY MEYER: I had nice leaders who had been pushing me to develop, and Shake Shack, we solely had one for the primary 5 years. Now there’s over 700 on this planet, however I simply didn’t actually wish to develop it as a result of my very own father’s chapter. I all the time related his two bankruptcies with progress, and it took me a number of years of remedy really and in addition his dying for me to comprehend that, guess what? There’s a complete lot of companies which have grown, and that’s not what put them out of enterprise. In truth, they’ve thrived. So it was a mix of my very own inside progress and getting over that, but in addition having the sort of leaders on the crew.
One particularly, a younger man named Randy Garutti, who had been a normal supervisor of our Indian restaurant, Tabla, after which he was the overall supervisor of Union Sq. Cafe all by the point he was 26 years outdated, and he needed to take over Shake Shack. And he noticed once we simply had this one Shake Shack in Madison Sq. Park, it was busy on a regular basis, it was making good cash, and the one drawback we actually had at that Shake Shack was the folks complained the road was too lengthy. And Randy lastly satisfied me, he stated, “There’s one factor we may do to make the road shorter and that’s open a second Shake Shack.” He most likely argued with me to do that for three years or so earlier than I lastly succumbed.
I acquired to the purpose and I stated, “You understand what? Who am I? This enterprise is sweet for its neighborhood. It’s good for its suppliers. The folks working there – folks had been doing rather well. We had been hiring lots of people for whom it was their first job ever, educating them about what it means to be a accountable member of a crew. It was factor, and I stated, “Who am I to carry again extra of that?” So we went forward and opened our second Shake Shack on the Higher West Aspect 5 years after the primary one, and the one drawback with that was that the road on the first one solely acquired longer. So Randy’s major argument to me had backfired, however that’s after I stated, “Uh-oh, we acquired a tiger by the tail right here.”
ALISON BEARD: Within the place that you just’re in now, how do you keep in contact with the tradition on the bottom?
DANNY MEYER: I am going. I am going to the locations and I care. I’ve an expression, which is that I believe chief, particularly as she’s rising, must cease micromanaging, however must double down on micro caring. So I don’t journey anyplace within the nation or on this planet the place there’s a Shake Shack with out stopping in to say hello. I’ve a listing of all of the managers at each single Shake Shack, and I ask for the supervisor by identify, and they’re stunned that I do this. They’re stunned that I do know them.
I simply did one this week really in Boston, and the overall supervisor, whose identify is Barbie, was amazed that I requested for her by identify. After which I spend time together with her. I spend time together with her crew, and I ask them, “What can we do higher?” Everybody loves while you ask them that, and guess what? I get good concepts.
And so it begins with caring, it begins with displaying up, however I’m not micromanaging. I’m not telling anybody the way to do their job. I’m not going there to play a recreation of gotcha. As a matter of reality, I’m going there to play the sport of educate me, present me, let me see what you’re happy with, as a result of everybody’s happy with one thing of their job. After which I circle again and reinforce it with their boss who … I hope their very own boss doesn’t micromanage them, however I do hope that their boss will get to see them and care much more than I do.
ALISON BEARD: Yeah. In durations while you’ve both encountered issues on these visits otherwise you’ve sensed that your entire company tradition is slipping, I believe within the e book you described it as going sideways, how do you progress to right it?
DANNY MEYER: The one issues I’ll right if I’m visiting a restaurant that doesn’t report on to me is that if I believe it’s both harmful or it’s going to value us clients that minute. So I’ve walked into Shake Shack … I went into one in Chicago a pair months in the past, and I walked in on a Sunday afternoon at about 4:00 when you wouldn’t count on the restaurant to be busy, and but the place was nonetheless packed. And I observed that there was water spilled on the ground, and I observed that there was ketchup on the condiment station proper on the floor. I stated to myself, “This doesn’t look proper. It doesn’t really feel proper.” In that case, I requested for the supervisor, stated good day, launched myself, however I introduced what I name a charitable assumption.
I didn’t say, “This place doesn’t look clear proper now.” I stated, “Appears such as you’ve had an extremely busy day as we speak.” So I began the entire dialog with that, and I discovered, yeah, there was some large occasion that day, and so they had been simply taking part in catch-up. And he stated, “I don’t know should you acquired quarter-hour, however this place goes to appear like day one should you acquired quarter-hour. I’m going to point out you that, however we’re simply taking part in catch-up proper now.” I’ve had an expertise the place one thing within the meals didn’t style proper, and I’m not speaking about Shake Shack now. I’ve talked about one other one in all our eating places, and I stated, “Guys, we’ve acquired to take that off the menu until we work out what’s occurring as a result of that’s not the way it’s purported to style.”
It’s vital for me that after I go away there, we middle the salt shaker, we return to doing it the suitable approach, however I additionally need folks to really feel proud that they’re on a championship crew whose final boss cares deeply about that. And guess what? I then, in each case, I completely circle again, whether or not it’s excellent news or constructive information, to talk to that individual’s boss or write an electronic mail or no matter. However we even have a tradition the place at any time when I dine in any of our eating places, I do know that the subsequent morning I’m going to have an electronic mail from the chef and the overall supervisor asking me for suggestions. They need it. And that’s a part of the tradition is that they don’t watch for me to say this was good or that might have been higher. I would like them actually to be saying, give us the products as a result of I’m on our facet.
ALISON BEARD: Yeah. So we talked about hiring for hospitality quotient and technical expertise and in the end logic. How do you indoctrinate folks into the tradition so that everybody is on the identical web page after which additionally incentivize adherence to it?
DANNY MEYER: We discuss this from the minute that we rent folks. We inform folks what we imply once we say a 100percenter. We inform folks not everybody will get employed right here. We’re actually, actually selective, and we inform folks precisely what we noticed in them that made us wish to rent them. So proper from the get-go, we’re letting folks know we employed you as a result of we imagine that you just both have already got or have the potential to be actually, actually good on the job that we’re paying you to do, however that’s not sufficient. There’s one other 51% that made us actually wish to rent you, and that’s for who you’re, and we discuss what the six emotional expertise are proper there that we’re searching for.
We let folks know that when you’ve a efficiency evaluation, we’re going to be speaking about the way you’re doing with the 49% and the way you’re doing with the 51%. We even … At Union Sq. Hospitality Group with all of our eating places, while you work for us, one of many advantages is you’ve a 51% eating low cost everytime you come to any of our locations, and it’s simply consistently reinforcing what issues. After which not simply phrases on the wall, however we additionally catch folks doing issues proper, and we’re very, very clear with what you probably did proper that reinforces the tradition.
After which most likely an important factor, Alison, is that the those that get the promotions as you’re rising have gotten to be the those that greatest illustrate, exemplify, embody the behaviors in addition to the technical efficiency you need. And it doesn’t matter what number of instances Danny talks about what issues to him. If the folks getting the promotions and raises are opposite to the phrases that they hear from my mouth or from my writing, then it’s nearly worse than if I had by no means stated these issues within the first place as a result of it simply makes me appear like I didn’t actually imply it. And so an important factor we are able to do to advance our tradition as we develop is to guarantee that the folks getting the promotions are the exemplars of our hospitality and they’re really the tradition carriers.
ALISON BEARD: So in any massive group the place you’ve a number of enterprise models and features, there’s a tendency for micro cultures to develop. And so I’m simply questioning, particularly in a company like yours, that earlier than the Shake Shack IPO undoubtedly spanned every part from the best degree of superb eating to what you name superb informal however a series. How did you stop that from occurring or when it did occur, repair it?
DANNY MEYER: I believe what you’re speaking about is the distinction between home satisfaction and firm satisfaction. And as a lot as there are commonalities to the tradition, or must be, for all of our locations, I name it the thumbprint.
We love the microcultures. What we don’t love is when it breaks down and sibling revelry turns into sibling rivalry. We don’t like when this restaurant isn’t on the facet of the opposite restaurant. I don’t thoughts that they’re competing with one another for excellence. I believe that’s not a foul factor in any respect, however I actually thoughts once they do something that’s in a damaging approach. We’ve even seen sibling rivalry inside one restaurant. We’ve seen micro cultures inside one restaurant earlier than. And if the query is, what do you do about it? You bought to lean in. You bought to see it. You bought to inform folks, “That’s not how we do issues round right here,” and if folks can’t get with that program, then they’ll’t be on the crew anymore.
ALISON BEARD: What in regards to the rigidity between company workplace tradition, which possibly is incentivized to prioritize profitability and the on-the-ground tradition, whether or not it’s at Shake Shack or the superb eating eating places, to essentially care most about pleasing the shopper and the crew there?
DANNY MEYER: Because the starting of enterprise, you’ve had-
ALISON BEARD: Precisely.
DANNY MEYER: … the gross sales crew and the manufacturing crew, whether or not it’s {a magazine}, editorial and publishing, whether or not it’s a manufacturing facility, which is manufacturing and gross sales. In a gaggle like ours, one other one may very well be the house workplace or the assist workplace and the people who find themselves cooking the meals, serving the meals and doing the dishes. And it’s my job because the chief of the corporate, however it’s all people’s job to comprehend we’re one crew, and the explanation that our workplace is a assist workplace is the one cause anybody in that workplace has a job is for the aim of serving to the folks within the area be extra profitable.
And had been we all the time good at it? Completely not. I imply, I noticed years the place somebody within the dwelling workplace would name a chef assembly for two:00 within the afternoon when the chef is simply breaking down lunch service and fascinated by dinner service. You’ll be able to’t do this, and people sort of issues turned irritants. So, once more, it will get again to hiring the suitable individuals who perceive what their position is. Your position is to assist the eating places, which is the place our visitor experiences are occurring, which is the place our income is occurring. There’s no income within the dwelling workplace. You’re a price except you’re serving to eating places be extra profitable.
ALISON BEARD: So that you write about a lot of successes in your corporation, but in addition a number of lows, having to again out of offers and shut eating places, struggling by means of the 2008 monetary disaster and COVID-19 closures and actually severe layoffs. So how do you retain the vibe constructive and the tradition sturdy throughout these actually attempting durations?
DANNY MEYER: Nicely, the tradition itself really helps me keep sturdy as a result of after I make errors and other people converse as much as me, meaning our tradition is powerful as a result of when folks say, “Danny, this isn’t how we do issues round right here. We’re an organization that places folks first, and also you’re placing traders first, versus the traders being the end result of actually nice worker and visitor and neighborhood experiences.” The tradition is the one which units me straight when that occurs. The duvet of what may presumably go proper is an arrow that goes up after which it goes down, after which it goes up after which it goes down. These downs are identical to waves within the ocean. It’s solely a matter of timing and dimension, however there’s all the time going to be one other down. And I believe the way in which we cope with these downs is de facto what determines whether or not the subsequent up goes to be a bit greater than the final up was.
ALISON BEARD: However in a interval while you’re having to shut eating places or make layoffs or reduce attributable to budgetary constraints, how do you form of maintain the belief of everybody and be sure that everybody’s nonetheless shopping for in to the truth that this can be a caring group that prioritizes hospitality for workers and clients above all else?
DANNY MEYER: You bought to be straight with folks, and you bought to provide them a balanced sense of actuality and hope, and it’s price our whereas to battle our approach by means of these issues and resolve them successfully and creatively and generously as a result of tomorrow may very well be a greater day.
ALISON BEARD: Danny, thanks a lot for being with me as we speak.
DANNY MEYER: Alison, thanks. I’ve actually appreciated all of your nice questions.
ALISON BEARD: That was restaurateur Danny Meyer. He’s writer of the forthcoming e book, What Might Probably Go Proper? The Important Journey to Scale an Enduring Tradition.
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