One of the coolest parts of having this blog is the fact that people randomly send me material to write about. This comes in particularly handy when the snowpocalypse hits and I end up not waiting on many tables. This is an example of one of those stories I might have missed. Normally I would […]
About David Hayden
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Weird Restaurant Stories 1/29/2011
Today’s weird restaurant stories and all future versions are now coming to you from the friendly folks at Google. Yahoo has been replaced as my source of choice for the stories. This week I will respond in more detail to what I feel was a completely unprovoked and unmerited attack by Yahoo on restaurant servers. […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 1/22/2011
Some weeks you all make me proud. It wasn’t until I perused at least 150 headlines that I determined this was going to be a special week. I have full boat of weird restaurant stories for you this week without a single person getting seriously hurt or murdered. Sure there were a few run of […]
Trash Talking Guests
One of the more difficult things about writing humorous posts for this blog is that I have a very biting sense of humor. I am not an angry or aggressive person. I mean no harm by it. It is just very difficult for me to see a joke set up and not make it. Most […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 1/15/2011
Welcome back to the first edition of Weird Restaurant Stories of 2011. This year I am introducing some changes to the format of this feature. Most notably, I am removing the regional competition. I am also eliminating the US versus The World contest every week. This will allow for more international stories when they are […]
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.
