THE YEAR OF SELF-SERVICE OPERATIONS – BUFFET LOVERS REJOICE!

January 13, 2021

In downtown Detroit, there’s an upscale restaurant where, for $50 per person, you can literally eat all night. There are seafood, salad, pasta and soup buffets that perimeter the second floor, providing guests with a similarly appetizing scene of the city as they fill their plates. When you’re not at the buffet, waitstaff walks around with various cuts of meat – if you’d like one, they’ll come serve it directly on your dish. Truthfully, the only extra you pay for are any family-style appetizers or beverages you’d like and, while I don’t always have room for crab-stuffed ragoons, I would recommend splurging the extra $10 for a glass of wine – you’ll thank me when the flavors bring out the best in your meat carvings. 

Now that you’re hungry, go grab a snack and then carry on as I dish the rest of the good news for my fellow buffet lovers.

TRANSFORMING UNCERTAINTY INTO CONFIDENCE FOR 2021

January 6, 2021

What a difference a year can make.

Remember this time last year when we all declared 2020 as the year of clear vision? With a list of goals in front of us, we welcomed the year by daring to dream of what the next 12 months could hold if we could just keep a grip on our own motivations and plans.

But when 2020 started unfolding in unexpected, devastating ways, we declared it the worst year many of us have ever experienced. A pandemic, civil unrest, a tumultuous election, social isolation, lost jobs and, worst of all, lost loved ones, seemed to be the common thread among our nation – it seems we were unified by widespread hardship.