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A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker

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Post by dmckeon »

rustcharm wrote: post #11
rtomanek wrote: post #5

> He rarely gets four hours of sleep. Right. I genuinely don't get where this glorification of no/ little sleep is coming from.

He should close Saturday, and get a hechsher. He’d get more business and some rest.

> Saturday, and there will be twice as many customers

Re: A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker

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Post by rustcharm »

dmckeon wrote: post #31
rustcharm wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He should close Saturday, and get a hechsher. He’d get more business and some rest.

> Saturday, and there will be twice as many customers

Yes, but being open Saturday, he won't have Jewish customers, who are in the prime demographic group for bagels.

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Post by totoglazer »

rustcharm wrote: post #32
dmckeon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Saturday, and there will be twice as many customers

Yes, but being open Saturday, he won't have Jewish customers, who are in the prime demographic group for bagels.

Except, ya know, the twice as many customers he mentioned he gets on Saturday.

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Post by jkaplowitz »

rustcharm wrote: post #32
dmckeon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Saturday, and there will be twice as many customers

Yes, but being open Saturday, he won't have Jewish customers, who are in the prime demographic group for bagels.

He won't have the Orthodox Shabbat-observing hechsher-seeking Jews. Most American Jews, and I suspect most Vermont Jews, are quite open to buying a bagel on Saturdays, or from a bagel shop that isn't strictly kosher.

Source: I am such an American Jew, though not from Vermont.

Doubly so for his non-Jewish customers.

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Post by logfromblammo »

rwc wrote: post #22
logfromblammo wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He can't, unless he has a beneficial genetic mutation that makes his sleep super effective. He needs to hire a delivery driver, record the hockey games on a DVR to watch the next day, and buy blackout curtains for his bedroom, so he can go to sleep by 5 PM.

ah, the arrogance of HN hard at work. Prescribing the perfect solution to a problem he didn’t even know he had.

Fine. He should get a sleep study done, so a specialist doctor can describe the damage he is doing to himself, scare him a little, and come up with a treatment plan from there. If you only sleep for 4 or 5 hours a night, you are killing yourself.

Everybody who does odd-hours work should have a sleep specialist doctor, and this guy is one of the few who need one, that can actually afford one. Sleep is important. It is not wasted time; it is biologically necessary.

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