Just time for a quick post today. Â Between campers at lunch and opening dinner, I wasn’t left with much time for writing. Â The upside is that I am not going to try and rush through some great topics I have been working on to finish the rest of the month. Â This week should be filled […]
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Weird Restaurant Stories 9/25
“In the restaurant industries’ war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the reporters of local newspapers. These are their stories.” *dun dun* Generally, I try to find some oddball stories during the course of the week to make you all chuckle on Saturdays. I tend to read stories on Friday afternoon and […]
The Greatest Customer Complaint Response Ever
I had lunch today with my friends Emma and Senor Esparza. Â They ate at Justus Drugstore last night. Â Justus is on the outermost outskirts of what could be considered Kansas City. Â In the few years that it has been open it has developed a reputation of being well worth the drive. Â I personally have never […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 9/18
Welcome to the “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)†edition of Weird Restaurant Stories. This week was full of mayhem, fire, and theft. Restaurants closed and restaurants reopened. As always they were documented by local reporters and read by me. I filtered out the generic stories to […]
My Response: 25 Things Chefs Never Tell You
I am trying to fight through the worst bout of writer’s block I have had since I started writing this blog. I started at least three different posts yesterday that ended up in the recycle bin. In my last post I promised to get back to some server related posts, but my brain has forced […]
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.
