Honestly, I don’t have a witty introduction for you this week. The upside is that they generally aren’t that good to begin with. I’m not going to even fake it. Let’s talk about some stories. The health inspector scam has spread to North Carolina. Now they have some interesting ideas on why this scam is […]
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Weird Restaurant Stories 11/20
It seems this column always ends up with a focus on crime. I can only expect that to become more common as the holidays approach and crime rates rise. This week’s stories are not only about crime, but the general stupidity of those who commit it. These people pictured themselves as modern day D.B. Coopers […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 11/13
As I perused this week’s restaurant stories, one thing became very clear. It was an incredibly bad week for restaurant managers. Several of this week’s stories contain the “manager’s behaving badly†meme. There are also some great follow up stories that will sound familiar to long time readers of this column. All of which have […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 11/6
This week I ran across an article of particular relevance to this series. Most of the regular readers know that each week I give an award to the restaurant hero of the week named after Chef Jonathan Justus. I guess the bad review he received on yelp did not hurt him too much. His restaurant […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 10/30
Welcome to a very spooky Halloween installment of weird restaurant stories. How was that for a cliché introduction? I am going to attempt to avoid clichés in this post. That means no reporting of haunted restaurants or robber wearing Halloween masks. To avoid the clichés even further this will be the first ever violence free […]
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.
