What You Can Learn From The Taste of Texas

The Taste of Texas is a great steak restaurant in Houston, owned by my friend Edd Hendee. It’s also a Texas History museum, giving tours of the scads of Lone Star State memorabilia inside the restaurant. (Like a Bowie knife that actually BELONGED to Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett’s hilarious letter to the Tennessee legislature, where he announced that he was moving to Texas.)

If you go to their website (tasteoftexas.com) for their newsletter this week, one of the first things you’ll notice is this:

What makes dining at Taste of Texas Different?

Our goal when you walk through our doors to enjoy a meal with us is that you immediately know there is something different (here). Most importantly, we want you to know our love for God, our country, our family, our staff, and our community. We absolutely love our business, and we never want to take our customers’ dining experience for granted…”

Then, under “Staff Updates,” this is one of the items:

After more than four years of dating, long time server Armando Ocampo is finally marrying Jamie Tatum! These two met while waiting tables at ‘Taste’ and they make a great couple. This makes close to FIFTY marriages of people who met while working at Taste of Texas! We wish you the best, Armando and Jamie!

Here are some questions for you:

Does your radio station sound like it cares about the people who work there and about the listener? (Does it even sound like the air talents actually know each other?)

Can you hear the station in the hallways? (This drives me nuts, because if you don’t care about the station enough to listen to it, why should anyone else?)

Is there a sense of selflessness, being of service, and celebration of good news?

If not, why not? Is a steak restaurant in Texas more of an actual ministry than your station?