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Judgment & ambiguity · Prioritizing without clear signal

Ten minutes before doors, your POS is dropping tickets to the kitchen intermittently, a delivery of produce just arrived half-wilted, and you're one server down. Nothing is clearly the first fire — how do you sequence it?

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Ten minutes before doors, your POS is dropping tickets to the kitchen intermittently, a delivery of produce just arrived half-wilted, and you're one server down. Nothing is clearly the first fire — how do you sequence it?

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