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Ben Beaumont, a.k.a. “Waffle,” works sciencerelated toys into his job at Eddie’s Place in Cotswold.
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SERVING SCIENCE At a popular Cotswold restaurant, a server and physicist is serious about toys BY KATHLEEN PURVIS PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER TAYLOR
KIDS COME INTO EDDIE’S PLACE in Cotswold these days looking for the Waffle. Not the one on the menu. They want to see the server nicknamed Waffle, the guy with the curly beard and ponytail and the crazy science puzzles in his pocket. Continued on next page
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