Success
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Her first thought was the officer saw her talking on the phone. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo. Look how popular Mexican food, Asian food, Italian food restaurants are. That kind of hard work sustained her restaurants during the pandemic.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2024
This article was written by DLR Group’s Jeremy Reding for Work Design Magazine. There is also growing interest in “Zoom Villages,” which is a group of pods made up of prefabricated phone booths as well as the addition of cell-phone free zones where heads down quiet work can be done. Image courtesy of DLR Group.
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FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Outreach Marino is more excited to get on the phone than your average person. So, she records video journals on her phone to verbalize swirling thoughts. In fact, she knew she had to write her book after witnessing a family of five spend an entire restaurant dinner on tablets. “No No one spoke…. It broke my heart.
Success
MARCH 13, 2022
Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.
Success
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
It doesn’t include marketing campaigns, friends’ social media updates and all of the other components of a world in which your time is someone else’s commodity, a world in which seemingly everyone is trying to find ways to reach through your phone and into your living room to steal your attention, just for a minute, promise.
Success
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
selling peanuts, or having a little restaurant,” he says. That person is not going to pick up the phone and make that call because they’ve already defeated themselves in their belief system,” Kelly says. For example, most sellers send emails, make phone calls or write LinkedIn messages to prospective clients.
Success
MAY 30, 2022
I’m driving home from one of Atlanta’s popular new restaurants. I needed something to do—a hobby—that would force me to put my phone down and redirect my attention and my thumbs. We exchanged phone numbers and Instagram handles. This article originally appeared in the May/June 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine.
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