Having lunch today in Carrboro with a friend who suggested we go to a "nice" place. We settled on Tandem. In a rare move much like the responsible small business person I aspire to be, I arrived 5 minutes early, I was looking across the room as I waited for him to get there. It was pretty full. At 58, we were going to be amongst the younger people lunching there.
I thought back to when I was working lunch in the same location at Aurora back in '89-'90. Lunch was much slower back then.
The difference, I realized, is that back then the Boomers ranged in age from 25 to 43 and that Chapel Hill-Carrboro had not yet developed a reputation as being a great place to retire. There were just a whole lot fewer people out lunching. And also many fewer people working from home or in the flexible work modes that the internet and smartphones make possible.
However you slice it, the people waiting tables today were making more money than I used to at lunch.
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