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Weird Restaurant Stories 2/26/2011

This morning I saw the opportunity for potential greatness.  I drove by one of my favorite restaurants, Blanc Burgers and Bottles, and saw a gaggle of protestors out front.  In my best Navin Johnson voice I shouted, “These people hate deliciousness.”  I could not make out their signs, so I swung back around.  It turns […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Weird Restaurant Stories 10/23

Welcome to the first ever bonus edition of Weird Restaurant Stories.  This week I am going to try something a little different.  The difficulty I have each week in compiling this list is eliminating those last few stories.  This week several of the stories I wanted to eliminate all fit into the same theme.  So […]

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