This gives a new meaning to the term “Sonic”

From The Weekly Vice: December 16, 2009 Dennie Bratcher Was Cooking Something At Sonic Besides Burgers And Fries Cape Girardeau, MO (The Weekly Vice) – Dennie Bratcher, a 27-year-old Sonic shift manager was jailed after he reportedly attempted to manufacture methamphetamine in the restaurant’s kitchen. According to Cape Girardeau police, deputies responded to a burglar [...]

Managing the weeds

I’ve discussed this before, but you should have a personal plan for managing the weeds in the back of your mind – a sort of fallback, mindless set of priorities unique to your own restaurant. By mindless, I don’t mean that the priorities are mindless, but that you don’t have to think very hard about them [...]

Kitchen tool of the day – microwave

Yeah yeah, I know – microwaves are cheating. Good cooks don’t microwave. Microwaves are the devil. Well, I consider the microwave an essential cooking tool, even if I rarely use it. First of all, how would I cook popcorn? I’m kidding about this, of course, but I actually do microwave popcorn on occasion. Clean, easy [...]

New York restaurant has an interesting gimmick

New York Bar to Set Menu Prices Like Stocks New Restaurant Where Prices For Food and Drink Will Fluctuate Like Stocks NEW YORK (Reuters) – What’s the value of a pint of beer? Let the market decide, says a new restaurant in Manhattan where prices for food and beverages will fluctuate like stock prices in [...]

100,000!

’nuff said…

So, as I leave for work…

…we’re about 140 hits away from 100,000. It will probably turn over while I’m at work, so I want to thank everyone again for the milestone.

End of month uniform check

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve reminded all of you waiters to do a monthly uniform check. For newbies to the blog, I recommend taking a quick look at your uniforms every week or so as you wear them, but to take the end of the month to really examine all of your uniforms [...]

Big milestone likely tomorrow!

Unless something really weird happens, So You Want To Be A Waiter should get its 100,000th hit tomorrow. Thanks to all for supporting a blog that doesn’t stir up a lot of shit. I’m glad that there are people interested in waiting tables, either as waiters, kitchen people, management and customers. Hopefully we’ve all learned [...]

Foodie Rant – The Coupon Tipping Blues

Finally, someone on the other side of the table discussing a thorny issue for waiters: Foodie Rant – The Coupon Tipping Blues by Anthony Todd I’ve been spending a lot of time reading the recent debates over Groupon and the other group-deal coupon sites. Some argue they hurt small business, some that they can save [...]

What do you mean that he wants his steak recooked?

Next time you complain that your well-done steak is “overcooked”, just remember – this is what we waiters have to face. Thanks to the website “Picture is Unrelated – WTF pictures and videos”. Find more like this at http://pictureisunrelated.com/