Yesterday, my roommate explained to me why I have killed so many irons and ironing boards. Apparently you are supposed to spray your shirts with starch and then wait a few minutes before ironing them. I estimate that I have ironed at least 5 times a week for most of the last decade. I never […]
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Random Thoughts From A Server
This post is the first in what might be a series. Occasionally, I have random thoughts that do not merit their own post, but I wish I had a way to share. This document sits on my computer as a place that I can jot them down. When it gets long enough to post, I […]
Five Songs Restaurants Ruined For Me
If you have spent an extended period of time working at one restaurant, you have probably grown accustomed to their soundtrack. Restaurants today have far more musical variety with Muzak and satellite radio. While you hear songs repeated now, it is far better than the endless loop of the same hour of music that most […]
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 […]
Little Gordon
I’ve written in the past that we are all salespeople. Well let me tell you about caterers.com. If you are looking for a restaurant gig in the UK, you should use caterers.com to find it. I like caterers.com. I have never used caterers.com, nor do I live in the UK. I have however been laughing […]
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 […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 2/19/2011
Every week I bring you the weirdest stories from the world of restaurants. Some weeks are definitely weirder than others. This week most certainly qualifies as one of those. After the last few weeks being particularly calm, this week all the crazies returned. Arson, prevented arson, lawsuits, and more. This was a very weird week. […]
As For Me and My House
“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 […]
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 […]
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.
