Puri: Restaurant Kitchens Create Much Stronger Camaraderie Than Tech Offices
Shaan Puri · How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193 · Jun 23, 2021 · at 7:06
Sean Puri contrasts the intense shared experience of restaurant work with typical tech company office culture.
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“The kitchen crew, this, the bond is different than like just your normal friends or like your coworkers. Like if you go to your office today and you have a coworker who sits, you know, three desks down and both of you have your headphones on and you're typing on your Mac, you know, you have a, and you go to, you go get your free lunch together at the cafeteria. Like this is the tech industry, right? It's like, Totally different vibe than you're in the restaurant. It's Friday night. The restaurant's rocking. You're banging out orders as fast as you can. And you know, it's one AM when you're finally done cleaning up and it's like, all right, now let's go eat. And then, you know, you go to some restaurant and the restaurants closed, but they let you in because you're from the restaurant industry and you get to go eat with them. Like that's just a different level of camaraderie.”
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