What a 1980s Pizza Parlor Taught Me About Industrial Chaos
By Jim Teece Forty Six! years ago, I was part of a machine. I didn’t know it then; I just thought I was a seventeen-year-old kid in a flour-dusted apron. I had a job after school at a pizza parlor called Pizza Pete’s in Mill Creek, Washington. For a while I worked a pizza assembly line that functioned with the precision of a Swiss watch. The process was a linear dance: the dough was sauced, passed to cheese, then handed off to meats. The "Veggie Person" did their part before...
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