Month: February 2010
As is becoming the norm, I’m way overdue to get these out. Thanks for your patience and support (both personally and professionally), thanks for reading, thanks for doing all the amazing things that you do everyday to make all this that is the ZCoB go as great as it goes. It’s just my own sense of things but I feel like the energy around our parts is really, actually probably higher that it’s ever been. And that while—as is pretty much always the case—some parts of “us” are having better times and others are working through more challenging ones—the energy, the positive attitude, the spirit of generosity, the level of cooperation and the quality of the food and drink are better than ever. Which is pretty cool thing to be able to say 28 years down the road.
There’s a lot of great stuff going—Roadhouse beef, baguettes, new Wowza candy bars, new packaging at Mail Order (Mo’s working on some really great, cloth from old bread baking, not inexpensive, but I think lovely carry-bags to sell—ask him about them if you’re interested in getting in on the project!) … plus pot pies at the Deli, new coffee brewing methods, ZingTrain’s debut of the new, half day, Service Express training sessions, etc., etc.
In terms of compliments and how much good food, good service, good energy appeal to all ends of the world’s spectrum, I’ll tell you that on the same day I heard rave reviews about the entire ZCoB first from half a dozen highly experienced, business focused upper level executives from the Giant Eagle supermarket chain (based in Pennsylvania) and from the guys from Band of Heathens, here from Austin for the Folk Festival. Let me just say that these two groups are not likely to be seen hanging out together too often and probably have fairly different tastes in many things in life. But there they were – the execs stylish black overcoats in the am, the heathens in black jeans and leather jackets later that same evening—telling me how much they loved the whole experience. Pretty cool I’d say.
Seriously, thanks for doing all you do. It’s pretty darned amazing to be a part of it!
Ari