Donald Burns asks a guest what superpower they'd use to run a restaurant. The guest picks stopping time so no customer ever waits for food, even a well-done steak ready in seconds. The conversation explores how this fantasy solves the real problem of kitchen speed.
If you could get one superpower, one superpower to run your restaurant, what would it be and how would you use it? And please use it for good. I'm trusting you.
Not evil. Oh, well, you know, the ability to stop time. That'd be great.
Oh, that's, or a time machine, huh? Ability to stop time. Like just like stop time, but you could move it around in time?
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Like we're going to stop the time right now And then we're gonna move around.
You can move and you can move in time and everyone else is like frozen and you're like, you can move around and move stuff around.
Yes, but my whole team can too. I want everybody to have this ability.
Yeah, yeah, cool, that'd be cool.
No one will ever wait for food.
That's it, like time and also their food's like right in front of them. Yes, that might freak people out. It's like, whoa, whoa, what do you mean? Where'd that come from?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That well-done steak only takes 30 seconds now, didn't—
when you stopped having anything. Yeah, it wasn't sick, you're sick 20, now it's 30 seconds at most.
Yeah.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
