Recently, one of my favorite blogs wrote a story about the Groupon Apocalypse. This is the week before all of the groupons that have been sold for a restaurant expire. Suddenly all of the guests who bought these six months prior feel the urgent need to use them immediately. I have heard plenty of horror […]
About David Hayden
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Retro Restaurant Ads: 1980s Burger Wars
The internets are teeming with classic television ads for restaurants. Some of them are downright awful. Some have stood the test of time very well. Whether they are good or bad, they are a fun reminder of days gone by. Today I am offering a walk down memory lane. In the mid-1980s there was a […]
Rejected Restaurant Ads
A restaurant recently made headlines for offending a great number of people with a billboard that featured the phrase: “Like a cult, but with better Kool-Aid.” Â While the Jonestown reference was sorta funny in my opinion, I can see why people were offended. Â This is also why I didn’t go into advertising. Â My sense of […]
Random Thoughts From a Server II
I often wonder aloud why there are so many sequels. There have to be more great stories to tell than the stories that have already been told. It seems that every successful movie becomes a franchise and is followed up by three more sequels that aren’t as good as the original. If you liked the […]
About The Author
David Hayden was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He took his first serving job in 1996. Since that time, he has worked for over a dozen different restaurant companies. He has held both hourly and salaried positions at independent and corporate restaurants. He has waited on over 100,000 guests and trained hundreds of servers. He has been named "Best Server in Kansas City" the last three years by the local weekly paper.
