{"product_id":"pre-meal","title":"Pre-Meal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"x_x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eFor years at Eleven Madison Park, Will Guidara gathered his team before every lunch and dinner service for pre-meal, a thirty-minute meeting to share a story, teach something, and get everyone fired up to go take care of people. When he sold the restaurant, it was the thing he missed most.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_x_elementToProof\"\u003eSo in 2023 he started Pre-Meal, a twice-monthly newsletter that keeps the practice alive. Each piece starts with a single moment Will noticed out in the world: a ten-foot Post-it note at the Portland airport, a self-storage sign in Tacoma that turns into “Elf Storage” every December, a laminated menu of free extras in the back of a Sydney Uber. This zine collects fifty-two of his favorites. That’s a year’s worth if you bring one to your own team each week.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_x_elementToProof\"\u003eEvery story is paired with a photograph by Mackenzie Canlis, and all fifty-two were taken within one mile of the Unreasonable Hospitality offices in East Nashville. They show ordinary people in ordinary moments: a handwritten sign in a window, a child’s hand being held, someone walking through a pocket of light.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_x_elementToProof\"\u003eWhy a zine? Will collected them obsessively as a teenager hanging around a record store in Yonkers. In his words: “There’s no business case for it; in fact, there’s a pretty strong case against... Sometimes, the right reason to make something is simply because you want it to exist.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_x_elementToProof\"\u003eA limited printing, available only through Unreasonable Hospitality and four independent bookstores.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Larder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68051572555994,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/5957\/7004\/files\/Pre-MealCover.png?v=1793904990","url":"https:\/\/booklarder.com\/products\/pre-meal","provider":"Book Larder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}