Posted on 11/04/2019 2:05:07 PM PST by Textide
Since she graduated from Harvard last year, Yehong Zhu has worked for Amazon.com and Twitter in Seattle, San Francisco and London. She’s living in Lisbon now, gathering ideas for her own startup.
In 2014, however, the jet-setting Ms. Zhu was just another teenager from Newnan, Ga. looking for a summer job. And the only place willing to hire her was Waffle House. “Chick Fil-A was too competitive,” she says.
On her first day, smiling nervously behind a bright-yellow name tag, Ms. Zhu had no idea that her new manager, a woman named Diana, was about to become a lasting leadership role model. “I was very impressed with her,” she says. “She was the first to arrive and one of the last to leave and seemed to have a handle on everything. She thrived under pressure, and pressure at Waffle House is constant.”
In case you’re not familiar, Waffle House is a closely held suburban Atlanta-based chain of 24-hour budget diners in 25 states that invariably reek of bacon. The company does not advertise, rarely changes its menu and refused to take credit cards until 2006.
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From a great Mad Magazine comic from decades past. I believe in diner-speak that’s a ham sammich with lettuce and mayo, hold the pickle.
Nice! Thank you
I figured “cold pig” was ham, LOL - thought the other might be lettuce but had to keep guessing.
I still remember Mad’s “201 Minutes of Space Idiocy” and their version of Star Wars.
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