I work doubles on Mondays, which generally leaves me little time to write. This has lead me to try several different concepts for Monday posts. Most were not well received. This Monday, as promised, I am going to do something different. Today we will try a brief recap of my favorite server blog posts from […]
About David Hayden
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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 […]
Story Time: Injuries
From the statistics I get through WordPress, I can tell that about half my traffic comes from search engines. Which is cool and I enjoy seeing what people search for to end up at my blog. The other half is people who came here via a link someone posted or have the page bookmarked. For […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 9/4
Back again for another weekly roundup of strange news stories from restaurants around the country. This week’s list was remarkably easy to compile. Some weeks I feel like I have to stretch to find interesting stories. This week most of the effort went into limiting the list to my maximum number of twelve. Here are […]
Top Five Posts You Probably Missed
Being less than a week away from my 100th post has left me some time to think about how I want to recognize that milestone. I thought about a grand countdown. I thought about an retrospective on all of the changes I have seen in the restaurant business in my years. I had an idea […]
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.
