That's a great thing. I mean, but I also don't know if we, if, if, if it has been a factor that I don't know if anybody, you know, nobody's ever actually called it to my attention. So I don't think so. Um, I also think we tend to live in an area of the country. That's pretty open and diverse. A lot of people have a stereotype of Connecticut, a little bit as being a certain way, but. For such a small little state, we are jam-packed full of a lot of different kinds of people. And we all get along really well. We're, you know, we, I would say New England or Connecticut puts England in New England. We're very polite. So I've never heard of anything like that at all. I've never had any kind of discrimination at all. I have had one instance with a very large promotional company that I will not name publicly, that did use us for our diverse status to get a rather large federal contract, and then went to another supplier after they secured the contract. And, you know, basically what with kind of the old boy's system, you know, but they were savvy enough to try to leverage our certification and they won the contract. And so tokenism is still an issue. It does happen, but I would say that's really the only negative experience I've ever had. Everyone else has been just. Amazing. And I am very grateful for it, but I was also grateful for what happens in that negative sense because it taught me that you do have to kind of protect your status, you know, if you, it, you know, because it is, there's so much money involved in these things that someone yeah. It's probably going to be a little nefarious and try to use you. And you've just got to protect yourself. Marshall Atkinson Well, nobody wants to be taken advantage of, right? Monica Maglaris No, no. And it, you know, and I'm a huge believer in karma. And, you know, she shall rain down on their heads. I'm sure. But, uh, in the meantime, you know what, I was kind of like, all right, you do, you, that's fine. You know, that'll come back on you someday. Um, but for the most part, yeah, nobody's ever really like dropped us or anything like that for being who we are. Ever had a problemwith it. We have a really diverse team. Like I said, with a capital team, we've got a very diverse team. Uh, we have other gay people here. We have black people here. We have Hispanic people here, men and women, and everyone just sort of coalesces together. And I think I always, I always put a lot of emphases actually on our logo. If you look at our logo, we've got the class hands. And that means partnership. And that is at the heart of every little thing we do. So whether it's how we conduct ourselves out in the community or how we treat each other inside the shop or how we treat our clients, everything is about partnership. And how can you further strengthen that partnership? So when you have that foot forward, first, the restaurant falls into place. So we've never really had any issues here. With any types of strange feelings or discrimination or, you know, meanness or anything like that? I think that like attracts, like, and if you go out in the world with an open heart and an open mind, you're probably going to come across people like that. And you just keep them tight in your circle, make them part of your tribe. Marshall Atkinson Well, that's great. And the one thing I do know is that having diversity in the workplace
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