Yeah I put in a tip jar

Some of you are looking at that PayPal donation button and thinking, “Great, another sellout.” What the hell else did you expect? I’m a waiter. I live on tips. If you throw me a buck that would be great. If you don’t that’s fine too. I...

Holy Shit it’s Alec Baldwin!

You know celebrity is an interesting thing. Why are we so interested in their lives, what they wear, who they sleep with? What gives them their “power?” I mean you have to admit we live in a celebrity obsessed culture. Just look at the J-Lo/Affleck shitstorm. John...

Angels and Getting My Swerve On

If you work in a restaurant and can’t get laid you have a problem. Think about it. You are surrounded by young, mostly unattached people, in a high stress close contact situation where alcohol is plentiful. Hooking up is not only inevitable – it’s endemic to the...

Its only a flesh wound!

It’s Friday night and I’m waiting on some real assholes. Two middle aged couples, so busy bad mouthing absent friends, I wonder what they say about one another in private. So animated is this little hate fest that I’m shooed away every time I approach the table....

The Waiter & the Spoon

A friend emailed me this. I just had to post it here! A timeless lesson on how consultants can make a difference for an organization… Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his...

Whatever………

Ok, some waiters are pigs……… Waiter has sex with underage girl – Story here. …….and some of us need anger management classes. Waiter accused of vandalizing home Man those waiters at Sizzler are mean...

Some Like It Hot

“Waiter this coffee is cold.” “It’s a fresh pot madam.” “Whatever. Get me a hot cup of coffee.” I go back to the kitchen. I heat up a cup with water from the espresso machine and fill it with piping hot coffee. That usually...

Crack Head Caroline

It’s a frigid Wednesday night in February and we’re preparing to close early. The temperature has never inched above five degrees. Domino’s pizza delivery might be busy but we sure as hell aren’t. Sitting around counting our meager take for the night, we hear Caroline...

Lord of the Flies?

It’s a beautiful summer’s day and two ladies are lunching al fresco on the patio. Everything is going swimmingly save for the insects that buzz around trying to catch a meal – or lay an egg. It’s a slow shift. I am inside deeply engrossed in a...