THE SHORT
DinnerGrrls in Philadelphia: meet other dynamic, interesting women while taking notes on what the owners of the restaurant at which we’re dining can do to improve their small business. The restaurant in question is a vegetarian Chinese BYOB and you’re welcome to bring some vino should you feel so inclined.
Who: 9 Philly-area women who believe in fulfilling, authentic lives and careers
What: DinnerGrrls.org – Philadelphia’s official kickoff dinner
When: Thursday, March 22nd, from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm*
Where: A restaurant we won’t name – 1006 Race Street between N. 10th & N. 11th
Why: Because anonymously helping this small biz feels so much better than writing cranky online reviews!
How: Show your interest by reserving a ticket on Eventbrite. We’ll email with next steps a week prior to the dinner.
How much: We each simply pay for whatever we order.
THE LONG
9 hungry Philadelphia women will convene in Chinatown to
- Eat mock meat
- Eat, talk, meet
- And possibly do something neat**
You’ll like this BYOB dinner if at least one of the following applies:
- Enjoy stretching yourself and aren’t afraid to ask the big questions
- Have thought about starting a restaurant, cafe, or bar (”food service establishment”)
- Would like to practice working with others on a business improvement plan
- Like the idea of giving back by helping out a small business owner
- You like meeting new people!!!
Here’s how the DinnerGrrls.org – Philadelphia kickoff dinner will go down:
We’ll all arrive by 6:30. Introductions will be made, including a bit about what we currently do professionally, what we’re thinking about doing five years from now, and, if we want, what intrigues each of us about the DinnerGrrls.org concept.
Pretty standard networking dinner type stuff … except not:
- Dinners force us to push past the small talk of happy hours or cocktails
- It’s not about collecting a bunch of business cards and schmoozing our tails off
- We’re a flash mob of fabulous; our ideas could change this restaurant owner’s life
Yep. Those who wish will be taking notes throughout the dinner on how this restaurant could be run differently. Anything and everything is fair game, and in the weeks following the dinner, we’ll virtually meet up and prepare together (as each of our schedules and skill sets allow) a comprehensive business improvement plan.
WHY?!
The premise of DinnerGrrls.org is that to achieve career nirvana, you’ve got to know yourself, because if you don’t know who you are then it’ll be hard for you to figure out what makes you happy. And only once you know what pleases you can you meaningfully apply specific career-building tactics. If you do not know in which direction to confidently advance, it’ll be difficult for you to achieve your dreams.
This dinner experience is purposefully designed to help all of us strengthen skills upon which we can rely during any phase of our individual journeys toward career nirvana.
* (a) 8:30 is not a hard stop but for planning purposes you should budget up to two hours for a leisurely, chatty meal. (b) There’s a new moon on this date, so why not come out and meet some new people? =)
** Yes. We said ‘neat’.
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