1: Gramercy Tavern. New York City.

The lunch crowd has lined up on the sidewalk, waiting to get in.

“Whitney Macdonald was minutes away from a moment she had long anticipated,” Daniel Coyle writes in his book The Culture Code.

“It would be first-ever shift as a front waiter. and she was excited and a bit nervous.” 

Gramercy Tavern is a legendary New York restaurant “whose staff ranks as … continue reading