“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.†Joshua […]
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The Valentine’s Day Perfect Storm
I am generally a pretty optimistic person when it comes to work. That might be running pretty thin tonight. I just finished one of the toughest shifts I’ve ever worked. I can honestly say that I am dreading the shift that is staring me in the face on Valentine’s Day. In all my years of […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 2/12/2011
In the past, we have had weeks that focused on criminals. We have also had weeks where the police took center stage.  Today, the judges and lawyers have their spotlight. This week’s stories feature follow-ups on some of the most interesting characters from past episodes. I would not consider them conclusions to the stories, because […]
Yahoo! Hates Servers
I really do try to avoid being redundant on this blog. I have a growing list of topics that I want to cover and I feel those of you who read this blog deserve better than to have to hear the same old rant out of me. Yet, like Al Pacino said in The Godfather, […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 2/5/2011
Each week that I sit down to write this column, I become more convinced of one thing: journalists are not very creative. Scrolling through 200+ stories about restaurants this week I discovered that every newspaper in the country reported: a) huge snowstorms are bad for business and b) restaurants try to entice customers with specials […]
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.
