Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that you don't have to figure out every
Speaker 1: situation from scratch. A few templates that can work in
Speaker 1: common situations may be just what you need to make
Speaker 1: the people in your life feel cared for. In other words,
Speaker 1: even if one size doesn't fit all, one size may
Speaker 1: fit some. This tip comes from Will Guidara, the former
Speaker 1: General mantager of eleven Medicine Park and the author of
Speaker 1: the book Unreasonable Hospitality. He was recently interviewed by gathering
Speaker 1: expert Priya Parker. Over the years, eleven Madison Park became
Speaker 1: known for extraordinary thoughtfulness think provide a sled to diners
Speaker 1: seeing New York snow for the first time so they
Speaker 1: could go sledding after dinner. But, as Quidar explained, one
Speaker 1: size fits one hospitality is hard to scale. It is
Speaker 1: hard to constantly come up with new extravagant ideas, so
Speaker 1: he suggested looking for patterns in what happens and how
Speaker 1: you can respond to fit those patterns. He offered the
Speaker 1: example that lots of people got engaged at eleven Madison park,
Speaker 1: the restaurant team got the jeweler Tiffany to give them
Speaker 1: champagne flutes and Tiffany blue boxes. Then when couples got engaged,
Speaker 1: the restaurant served champagne in those flutes. After the toast
Speaker 1: staff washed the flutes and gave them to the couple
Speaker 1: in the blue box to take home as a memento
Speaker 1: of the moment. Champagne flutes in a special box wouldn't
Speaker 1: make sense for everyone, but one size fits some, and
Speaker 1: they were a good gift for newly engaged couples without
Speaker 1: having to come up with some new way to delight
Speaker 1: every newly engaged set. Even if you are not the
Speaker 1: manager of a special occasion restaurant, one size fits some
Speaker 1: is a helpful tip to remember. For instance, maybe you
Speaker 1: decide that a large proportion of people you know would
Speaker 1: love a monogrammed LLBean boat bag as a gift, or
Speaker 1: seize chocolates as a gift. Now, obviously for people who
Speaker 1: are allergic to chocolate, or who work for LLBean and
Speaker 1: don't need any more boat bags, you come up with
Speaker 1: something else. But one size fits a good number, even
Speaker 1: if not all One size fits some. For notes, too,
Speaker 1: the same phrase can convey gratitude and thank you note
Speaker 1: after thank you note. For most sympathy cards, the same
Speaker 1: basic structure and a core sentence of condolence will get
Speaker 1: you eighty percent to complete. You change the thing up for
Speaker 1: very unexpected circumstances, but you generally don't have to start
Speaker 1: from a blank page. One size fits some for food,
Speaker 1: have a few go to dinner party meals, and you
Speaker 1: will be able to host a party and delight your
Speaker 1: guests without overthinking it. One size fits sum for entertainment, too,
Speaker 1: Develop a menu of perhaps five destinations in your area
Speaker 1: that friends and family visiting from out of town might enjoy,
Speaker 1: perhaps museums, restaurants, parks, historical sites, or special shops when
Speaker 1: they are planning a trip to your area, and ask
Speaker 1: for your suggestions. All you need to do is copy
Speaker 1: and paste the destinations that are good fit for them
Speaker 1: and hit send. I think the wisdom of one size
Speaker 1: fits some is that it is not one size fits all.
Speaker 1: You are not trying to shoehorn every person or experience
Speaker 1: into a single response. But you also realize that, given
Speaker 1: the pace of life, one size fits one solutions are
Speaker 1: probably not practical. You don't have the time to start
Speaker 1: from scratch and figuring out how to respond to every
Speaker 1: person and experience with one size fits some. You are
Speaker 1: developing great responses to common patterns and getting a lot
Speaker 1: of mileage from these responses. When a unique situation comes up,
Speaker 1: you can come up with a unique and thoughtful response,
Speaker 1: but much of the time your menu of existing responses
Speaker 1: will equip you to respond with care. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
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