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Why Amira is the ultimate restaurant consultant

March 29, 2016

We discovered a tiny joint in Trinidad called El Zaguán, which serves mainly coffee, juices and other beverages, but also has three or four food items. One of these is what they call "tortilla," which is like a thin omelette left unfolded on the plate. Another is a chicken sandwich.

So Amira asked for a chicken sandwich, hold the chicken and substitute the tortilla.

He made them for us and they were delicious.

But then everyone else who came into the restaurant and pointed to our sandwiches and said: "I want that." Soon this guy was making almost nothing but these egg sandwiches.

As I write this, a table of these egg sandwich eating tourists is commenting that it's the best breakfast they've had in Cuba.

Dude, put it on the menu! (And about that menu, Amira has a few more ideas....)

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