Welcome back to another week of strange restaurant stories from around the country. I have been writing this column for several weeks now. Those of you who read it every week have already started picking up on trends. This week we have our first follow up story. We also have what I think qualifies as […]
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Weird Restaurant Stories 10/2
Welcome back for another week of weird restaurant stories from around the country and around the globe. Last week’s post sounded more like a crime blotter than a lighthearted romp through the news of the weird. It ended with two pleas. The first was to stop committing heinous crimes at restaurants and return to acts […]
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 […]
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 […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 9/11
Welcome to a very special episode of Weird Restaurant Stories. This does not mean that Arthur Carlson will try to take naked pictures of Gary Coleman while the girl from Striptease pops caffeine pills and Tom Hanks gets hammered on vanilla extract in Michael J Fox’s kitchen. Nope, this one is even more special. Today’s […]
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.
