Way back when I was doing my weekly “Weird Restaurant Stories” series, I gave the restaurant hero of the week to Tim Harris. For those of you who don’t remember, Tim was the owner of Tim’s Place, a thriving restaurant that specialized in free hugs. Tim has down syndrome, but still owns a restaurant doing […]
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Weird Restaurant Stories 3/19/2011
In the restaurant industry, we all get pretty good at playing the blame game. The servers blame the cooks. The bartenders blame the managers. The managers blame the hostesses. Everyone blames the servers. It turns out there is plenty of blame to go around. This week’s stories show that every group from the government to […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 3/12/2011
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 […]
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 […]
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.
