OK, well I wasn’t behind the line, but I was the manager. One of the servers ran up telling me that the kitchen was on fire and the cooks were burned… she had seen 2 of them with badly burned faces! It was 8pm on a Friday and the second
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IT’S MY RESTAURANT!!!
Back in 2002, a friend treated me to a birthday dinner without telling me where we were going. Surprise, it was Mario Batali’s BABBO in the West Village. When we walked in, the bored hostess was about to seat us when I said, “Do you know who I am?” (in
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Goodbye Dolly
It was Saturday, and a busy night was expected at the Oyster Bar & Spaghetti Machine and it was also Bobby L’s birthday. Earlier in the day I picked up a gift that we would give to him over drinks after closing. This was when Ann Arbor wasn’t too precious
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A Sweet and Very Quick Affair
An elderly British couple walked into the diner, in search of a cup of tea and a slice of pie. Upon delivery of the very proper lady’s black tea, she requested skim milk. I replied, we have only whole milk. Fact: when I tell someone, “we only have whole milk,”
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Meet the Cleavers
I worked at one of the “Greek pizza” places that were common here in Ann Arbor for years. I was their first ever, female, dishwasher. Apparently this meant the fat, dickish, MARRIED, cook was supposed to pinch my ass whenever he passed me in the tiny hallway of a kitchen.
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Baby Mama Drama
One slow lunch, an attractive muscular man asked to be seated with a tense, lovely blond and what turned out to be their daughter. He seemed very decisive, direct and yet polite. I brought their salads and walked away. A moment later, a flurry of motion caught my eye. I
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Feeling A Little Horse Today
I was excited to eat at the Chinese Restaurant in Royal Oak as I had done countless times before. After I got my food I was eager to bite into my favorite egg rolls. To my surprise I bit into something crunchy…
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Pizza Parlour Princess
One lunch rush in the popular pizza chain I worked at, a group of four middle-aged women were seated in a booth in my section. They were persnickety with me from the get-go but whooping it up with each other. They seemed like they hadn’t seen each other in a
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Spill The Beans
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