An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 14, 2024
- April 13, 2024
- April 12, 2024
- April 11, 2024
- April 10, 2024
- April 9, 2024
- April 8, 2024
What Roasting Coffee Can Teach You About Customer Service
When I was 12, my dad taught me to drive in a 1979 VW Rabbit Diesel with a 4-speed manual transmission. We were on a dirt road back near a so-called “holler” in West Virginia. After he explained to me the various levers, velocitators, and decelerators in a car of that pedigree, he told me what was actually important about driving:
“Drive for your passenger’s comfort."
It didn’t mean much to me at that moment — as our focus may have been on survival first, passenger comfort second — but, over the years, my father’s advice has seeped into almost every aspect of my professional life
It turned up when I was working as a mechanic at an Audi dealer right after high school, where I realized that I loved the idea that someone brings you something broken and you fix it and give it back. A few years later, I went to culinary school because I wanted to own a restaurant — a vision that had very little to do with food, and everything to do with the experience and ambiance of dining there Read more...
More about Los Angeles, Career, Customer Service, Product, and CoffeeOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/DeoS8juvo3U/
Mashable
Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.More About this Source Visit Mashable