Welcome back to the first edition of Weird Restaurant Stories of 2011. This year I am introducing some changes to the format of this feature. Most notably, I am removing the regional competition. I am also eliminating the US versus The World contest every week. This will allow for more international stories when they are […]
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Weird Restaurant Stories: Best of 2010
Welcome to the 2010 Weird Restaurant Stories finale. After eighteen weeks and two hundred and twenty two stories, it all comes down to the final 12. Sorting through all of these stories was much like a walk down memory lane. I had a chance to see the evolution of this column and remember some of […]

Weird Restaurant Stories 12/18
Welcome to the final weekly installment of Weird Restaurant Stories for 2010. I have once again scoured the internet for the oddest, strangest, and weirdest stories to happen in restaurants this week. Next week I will be posting the weird restaurant stories year in review. I will dig through each weeks stories and find the […]

Weird Restaurant Stories 12/11
Another week has come and gone. That means it is Saturday and time to count down this week’s strangest restaurant stories. This week is a little more special than most because I am writing up this list 35 years to the day after my Mother struggled through giving birth to me. I was already pretty […]

Weird Restaurant Stories 12/4
I will be honest. Last week’s batch of restaurant stories was pretty lame. Apparently everyone took a week off of doing really stupid things in restaurants. No need to worry though because this week people nationwide made up for their restraint last week. I am willing to go so far as to say that this […]
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- Random Thoughts from a Server 64: Chef Gordon Ramsey July 17, 2013
- Random Thoughts from a Server 63: Jealous Boyfriends July 16, 2013
- Random Thoughts from a Server 62: Wine Keys July 15, 2013
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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.