Welcome to the Day Chancho, part of the Ring of Podcast Network, presented by Major

Daniel Media. That song is Past the Hatchet by the Great Band Yo La Tango. And today we

will be doing the last fifth installment of the Major Domo pre-opening diaries. We do

it with Bill. We recorded this maybe a little over a couple months ago. With Stranges, we

started doing this in October of 2017 for the opening of the restaurant, which was January

2018. And we wanted to sort of have some documentation of the crazy cycle of excitement of opening

a restaurant to the total pain and suffering, opening to the joys of making it work and having

good reviews. And really, really hope that we're going to be able to get back into this, whether

it's a menu development, whether it's things that we're discovering about how to operate the

restaurant, new ideas. For instance, a new idea that I want to sort of institute is, there's

a lot of data that we're not using in restaurants. I know that some people are particularly

like larger corporations and casinos, data on the employees. But you guys are listening to this

on the ringer. So you're probably big sports fans. I'm a big sports fan. And I've been following

how data has changed sports from baseball to basketball to golf, just about everything. And how there

was some resistance to using it at first. But I think that whoever figures out how to use data in

restaurants is going to make a big, big, big splash. And what I love about baseball, obviously,

is the fact that they're stats, right? Like if you want to be the best baseball player in the

world, you know the metrics and you know the benchmarks that you're going to need to be as a pitcher

or a hitter, because it goes all the way back to like the late 19th century. And if you're a young

cook today, you're still going to go through some many, many similar patterns and bottlenecks and

and trajectories of being a great cook, even a great chef. And part of that is just the judgment

of how you cook, how you organize, how you make family meal, how you sharpen your knives,

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