It takes all kinds to make this big blue marble that we call earth what it is. As a server, I am constantly surprised by what customers expe...

There are a few things in this world that make my skin crawl: Snakes . I grew up in the country where Coral snakes and Copperheads lived und...

It finally happened. After years of working in restaurants, last week I was out being social and I let the needs of my server become more im...

I have written about entitled parents and their entitled children way too many times, but it never seems to be enough. I can always find som...

Forget Ash Wednesday. Today is National Margarita Day, y'all! Wipe that palm frond ash off your forehead and get your ass down to the ne...

My Grandma died one year ago today. It was one year ago that I was in her kitchen after her funeral surrounded by people I didn't know b...

I think it was Shakespeare who wrote this famous line about everyone's favorite useless article of clothing, the neck tie: To wear, or ...

I get a lot of emails and I read every single one because I truly care about everyone who takes the time to write in. (Truth be told, I am d...

Working in restaurants for the better part of two decades has done a lot for me. True, it has given me a life-long disdain of lemons in wate...

There is a restaurant in Las Vegas called Heart Attack Grill . The waitresses are dressed like nurses and the food is stunningly bad for yo...

Time to pull out the heart shaped box of candy you bought at the Walgreen's last night and give it to your best ho, because it's Val...

I recently wrote about how frustrating it is when someone takes both copies of the credit card slip effectively keeping me from getting a t...

I encountered a man last night who clearly had a knack for getting on my nerves. I find it incredibly annoying when a customer gets to the c...

Restaurants are always trying to find new ways to make the dining experience better for their customers. In the future, waiters will probabl...

I can't stop writing about the multi-millionaire John Castle who allegedly broke the finger of his waiter, Paul Kucik , when Kucik broug...

I don't expect customers to be very smart, so it's not surprising when people give the wrong answer to this question: Hello, how are...