At the start of the year, I discontinued the scoreboard feature of Weird Restaurant Stories. The scoreboard was designed to show that certain parts of the country had far more weirdness occurring in them than others. What was discovered is that there is something in the Atlantic Ocean that leads to far more strangeness than […]
About David Hayden
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Little Gordon
I’ve written in the past that we are all salespeople. Well let me tell you about caterers.com. If you are looking for a restaurant gig in the UK, you should use caterers.com to find it. I like caterers.com. I have never used caterers.com, nor do I live in the UK. I have however been laughing […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 3/5/2011
March madness is rapidly approaching in the basketball world, but it has already descended upon the restaurant world. That was my attempt to use the cliché before we have all grown incredibly sick of it in approximately two weeks. This week we saw a number of signs that March is off to an incredibly weird […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 2/26/2011
This morning I saw the opportunity for potential greatness. I drove by one of my favorite restaurants, Blanc Burgers and Bottles, and saw a gaggle of protestors out front. In my best Navin Johnson voice I shouted, “These people hate deliciousness.â€Â I could not make out their signs, so I swung back around. It turns […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 2/19/2011
Every week I bring you the weirdest stories from the world of restaurants. Some weeks are definitely weirder than others. This week most certainly qualifies as one of those. After the last few weeks being particularly calm, this week all the crazies returned. Arson, prevented arson, lawsuits, and more. This was a very weird week. […]
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.
