by waiter | Nov 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
It’s a busy Saturday night and Café Machiavelli is packed. Waiting on a line three waiters deep to input my orders into the computer system, I watch as the food runner delivers my entrées to the customers on Table 26. Everyone beams with pleasure as the runner sets...
by waiter | Nov 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
I don’t know where I caught the virus that knocked me flat. It started out last night as a foul taste in the back of my throat. At first I thought it was the homemade pesto sauce I ate with dinner, but the low grade fever and congestion that greeted me this morning...
by waiter | Nov 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’m at the dog park with Buster, my joint custody pooch. It’s the first cold day of the year. The late afternoon sun’s pushing long shadows out of the trees, rolling darkness across the bright leaves covering the ground. I shiver slightly. I’m glad I wore a winter...
by waiter | Nov 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
1. He’s what all women want and what all yuppie males fear. 2. Any establishment that hires him is automatically awarded an extra Michelin Star – even if it’s a high school cafeteria. 3. Chefs beg him for recipes. 4. The ugliest girl who ever slipped him a phone...
by waiter | Nov 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
I recently received a digital camera as a gift. I’ve never owned one so after I got it out of the box I spent the better part of an evening playing with it. It’s a very cool toy – but I quickly realize I’m way behind the digital photography learning curve. Heck,...
by waiter | Oct 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
“Where does it hurt?” I ask the young woman lying in the street. “My leg,” she groans. “Anywhere else?” “My side,” the girl says, wincing. She’s having trouble talking. “Can you breathe?” I ask. “Not much,” she gasps. “It hurts when…..” “Lie still,” I say, trying to...
by waiter | Oct 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m walking through the neighborhood where I used to work. When I pass by The Bistro’s front window I take a peek inside. A waiter I don’t know is standing in my old section and talking to customers I don’t recognize. As I watch the server’s...
by waiter | Oct 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Waiter, I have a question for you. While it’s not in regards to the restaurant industry, it has to do with the bar business. And, you guessed it, tipping. Within the last two years, I’ve developed some severe medical problems, mainly claustrophobia and agoraphobia,...
by waiter | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’m feeling a little stiff so I roll my shoulders to dispel the tension bunching my trapezius muscles. Then I take a deep breath, insert a magazine full of nine millimeter bullets into the butt of a Sig Sauer semi-automatic pistol, rack the slide to chamber a round,...
by waiter | Sep 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
It’s Tuesday and I’m doing laundry at the laundromat. Instead of watching my dirty clothes agitate and soap inside an industrial strength washing machine I decide to run some errands. I return library books, refill a prescription, buy stamps, and mail out bills. Then...
