Will Guidara
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard 15 Jun
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The Jefferson Fisher Podcast · How to Make Any Person Feel Seen with Will Guidara · 12 May 2026
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Because it's too exhausting to give me the feedback.
Yeah.
Do you know the phrase that I learned from my longtime mentor, his name is Danny Meyer, is Danny Meyer, who was one of the central tenants of the company, was charitable assumption.
When you say the company, I want to... Unreasonable, Union Square Hospitality Group.
Yes, got it, okay.
So that was like Gramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafe, it's where I came up.
And there's a whole other idea about communication from that company, but...
He had these isms, like these short, succinct... I love a good ism.
Bordering on cheesy articulations of his non-negotiables.
Mm-hmm.
And every time he made an idea into an ism, it was like a meta signal to all of us in the company that that thing mattered.
One of them was charitable assumption.
Charitable assumption is another way of saying give people the benefit of the doubt or ask the question before you say the thing.
So I'll give an example.
Someone comes into the restaurant and they're just a jerk.
They are just a jerk.
They're acting like a jerk.
Now, it's totally reasonable for me to say he doesn't deserve my best hospitality.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
The charitable assumption, though, would have me say instead, gosh, maybe on his way to the restaurant he found out that someone died.
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