Are you as bored as I am?

Nothing to photograph. No interesting stories to relate.

It's all about the project. Today, Andrea and I prepared a labor schedule and then I worked on developing the right balance between appropriate staffing and reasonable expenses. Linked Excel spreadsheets make "what if" calculations a breeze. Andy made little paper kitchen fixtures and moved them around on a piece of graph paper, working on the ideal floor plan. Derrick and Andrea surfed the web for useful data on Emeryville.

JIm revised the survey and had Chef Larry print him out some copies. We gave Jim the "assignment" of conducting a survey of potential customers. To be honest, none of us really wanted to do it, and when you don't show up, you risk getting the crap assignments. Also, we can actually complete the rest of the project in great detail without survey results.

Of course, if this were real life, we'd need to conduct extensive market research, including surveys, in order to see if our plan was on target. If this were real life, though, Jim would have been axed a long time ago. Unless his dad was an investor.