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by Rick Savard If you thought about ways to spend some quality time with your family, taking them to work wouldn't spring to mind right away, especially if that means the stressful environment of a busy restaurant or diner on a Friday evening or say, a Sunday morning shift serving four hundred hungry patrons after church services. Or would it? I doubt that most people would choose to work with their spouses in the tension filled atmosphere of a family-run restaurant, where it is not unusual to have a son or daughter in the workplace, or even a brother or sister or a parent even. It is a situation that many people in the food service industry find themselves in, especially as help gets harder and harder to find and keep. When it comes to family the key ingredient is that the help is reliable and readily at hand.

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