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for real dash food service. Hey there, welcome to Takeaway with Sam Ocas, a podcast from Nation's

Restaurant News. I am Sam Ocas, editor-in-chief here at NRN, and this is the show where I give you an

all-access pass to the restaurant industry's most influential

decision-makers. This week I'm talking with Aaron Wade, the founder of Home Room, an Oakland-based

mac and cheese restaurant concept with three locations. Aaron just this week released a book

called The Mac and Cheese Millionaire, Building a better business by thinking outside the box,

which details her journey going from lawyer to restaurant entrepreneur and how she and her team

achieved a more collaborative and meaningful work environment by building unique systems at

homeroom. Aaron's name may sound familiar to you as she made waves several years ago after she wrote

an op-ed for the Washington Post detailing the harassment that her employees were enduring

from customers and the unique solution that Home Room developed to combat that problem.

She joined the podcast to talk about her new book and

the color-coded system that has helped to protect her employees from harassment and build

trust among her team in the process. In this interview, you will learn more about why a better

working environment leads to better restaurant performance, why harassment from your customers may be a

bigger problem than you think, and why if you want to build a strong culture, you need to start

with trust. Jumping now into my interview with Home Rooms, Aaron Wade. Also, don't forget to

stick around after the interview, as I will share my five takeaways from this discussion, actionable insights that you can take with you on the go.

Okay, I'm sitting down with Aaron Wade, the founder of Home Room and the author of the upcoming

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