(Note: I am enjoying the final day of my mini vacation. Having a great trip. Met my favorite musician and a personal hero yesterday. Today I will be taking the scenic drive through the Ozark hills of Central Missouri. This is a post I wrote a couple months ago. Not my standard fare, but I hope you […]
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Thank You!
I wasn’t planning on writing today, but a huge thank you is in order to all of you. Yesterday my post titled “Ten Reasons Serving Is Not Like Your Job†crushed my previous best day. Huge props to Tony over at Tony’s Kansas City and Yellowcat at Do You Do That At Home for linking […]

Five Stories Worth Reading
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 […]

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 […]
Monday Morning Recap
I work doubles on Mondays, which generally leaves me little time to write. This has lead me to try several different concepts for Monday posts. Most were not well received. This Monday, as promised, I am going to do something different. Today we will try a brief recap of my favorite server blog posts from […]
- The Greatest Customer Complaint Response Ever September 23, 2010
- Why Not To Date Co-Workers August 14, 2010
- My Response: 25 Things Chefs Never Tell You September 16, 2010
- A Food Critic Intervention August 31, 2010
- The Card August 10, 2010
- Random Thoughts from a Server 65: Beer Glasses July 20, 2013
- T-Shirts for Servers 5 July 19, 2013
- Random Thoughts from a Server 64: Chef Gordon Ramsey July 17, 2013
- Random Thoughts from a Server 63: Jealous Boyfriends July 16, 2013
- Random Thoughts from a Server 62: Wine Keys July 15, 2013
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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.