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better than someone who does it every day. Three quarters of the staff. Three quarters of the staff,

I should not be better than maybe half the staff I'm being like generous just because

there is something to say about experience. This is in the context for everybody out there.

We cut right in out of the middle of a conversation.

Jared covering some shifts and taking up some labor in the cafe so that people could go on vacation for holiday time and get their little celebration on.

And we started the conversation of working bar and working bar fast and working bar

at a really, really intensely ridiculous rate that not a lot of people get to experience.

And just, yeah, and just like continuously moving in the cafe and seeing seeing needs and filling

needs or maybe even seeing things preemptively where I think a lot of people wait until like it's the time to do or there's

a list to get done to make sure we don't forget. And to have those things already kind of banked

in your mind and to just start working on them throughout your shift isn't necessarily a new

concept but felt at times like this is, oh yeah, like sometimes this is a good thing to do, like now instead of waiting until later.

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