Monthly Archives April 2016

Motivational Monday 4/25/2016

                                                  PUZZLES FOR THE WEEK OF 4/25: (1) Rising Tide The rope ladder of a boat hangs over the side of the boat and just reaches the water. Its rungs are 8 inches apart.  How many rungs will be under the water when the tide rises 4 feet? (2) Time to Tell A sundial is...

2015 W-2 release update 04/20/2016

Updated 4/20/2016 Due to issues with our W-2 vendor, we have removed all employee access to the online forms. Please refer all employee to the Payroll hotline at (864) 248-2066 or email requests to payroll.department@centerplate.com to obtain copy of W-2. Please instruct them to leave their name, last 4 of social or Lawson number,...

Motivational Monday 4/18/2016

Everybody pays taxes.                                                                 Questions for this week: Burning Ropes You are given two ropes and a lighter. Each of the two ropes has the following property: if you light one end of the rope, it will take exactly one hour to burn to the other end. It doesn’t necessarily burn at a...

CEO Newsletter

Greetings, I can’t believe that it’s been a month since our annual conference.  The buzz from the event continues to be terrific.  On behalf of all of Centerplate, I want to formally thank Doug Finney, Chef Arnold and the entire Pasadena team for a truly outstanding job of hosting our annual...

Motivational Monday 4/11/2016

              This week’s Brain Teaser: 1.     What can you hold without ever touching, or using your hands? 2.     A man builds a four-walled house. Each of the walls, on the outside, face due south. The man looks out the window and sees a bear. What color is the bear? 3.     Something extraordinary happened on...

Motivational Monday 4/4/2016

This week’s Brain Teaser: How many times you can subtract the number 5 from 25? Two mothers and two daughters were fishing. They managed to catch one big fish, one small fish, and one fat fish. Since only three fish were caught, how is it possible that they each took home a...