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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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In 1979, married lawyers Tim and Nina Zagatwho who dined out as a hobby, decided to poll their friends on restaurant recommendations rather than rely on just a few opinions from critics. While its print guidebooks and the company itself have evolved, at its height in 2005 the Zagat Survey included 70 cities and reviews from 250,000 diners.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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This was the spring of 2005. The lodge has a restaurant with a nice outside patio overlooking a river. There’s a restaurant near my house in Charlotte, North Carolina, that scrolls trivia questions on a few television screens all day. Anyone in the restaurant can play, simply by downloading an app.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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At 17, he moved to Denver and worked odd jobs, including at restaurants, gas stations and retail stores. That turned into a job with one of the retailers who carried those linens, Portico, where he worked his way up to buyer and then to head of e-commerce in 2005. He was homeless for a while, living out of his car.

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