February 2012

Children Served Cocktails

February 29, 2012

in Kid Stories

The last job I held waiting tables was at a neighborhood restaurant chain that catered to families and tried to liven up their bar area at night for the adult crowd. I tended bar at least one night a week and waited tables or expedited the rest of the time. One day, my friend “Lacy” […]

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Lewd Mr. Matt

February 24, 2012

in Fast Food Stories

My first job was working at what is still one of my favorite fast food restaurants, specializing in chicken. The schedule was perfect and the benefits of free meals on break definitely appealed to me as a 16-year-old. I was quickly moved from a fry station to drive-thru based on my customer skills and speed. […]

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Last summer, just around the corner from where I work, a new pizza place opened up. They are a smaller, local chain and I wanted to check out what they had to offer. One day after seeing their Wednesday special posted on the sign by the road, “Two Medium 1-Topping Pizzas – $10.00″ I thought, […]

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We had some friends over one night to play board games and didn’t want to make anything, so we figured the best option was to order some pizza (before we played the board games, of course!). We ordered from a well-known pizza chain in Western Canada, one that we’ve ordered from numerous times before and […]

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I had my 30th birthday in November 2000 and arranged to go out for a meal with friends and colleagues. We booked an Italian restaurant I had been to before and liked. There were 21 of us. The starters were fine, the main courses were fine. Service was very slow, but we were a big […]

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It was a Sunday afternoon a few years ago and my teenaged sister and my teenaged self were dining out with a huge group of friends at a pretty popular sit down restaurant. This was after a weekend teen camp and my sister and I had pitched in for gas and such for the trip […]

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