Class reunions

Reporting my feelings and thoughts in the same vain that I reported last month's dictation on wedding rehearsal dinners, I dislike class reunion dinners too--maybe on an even larger scale than I dislike the rehearsal dinners..What happens to people over time? Men's stomachs get bigger.. women's hair gets bigger.. Both genders have an attitude that encompasses their entire being. I guess they have...

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I hate wedding rehearsal dinners

I don't know quite what it is about a wedding rehearsel dinner that makes the bridal party's nose go so high in the air they can't see straight. What makes the mother and father of the bride and groom become demanding.. more so than the average typical demanding customer can be..The men huddle up into their gang of Coors Light drinkers, the women decorate and drink Cosmos. The "adults" of the party...

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Restaurant nation

According to very early numbers from the week box office, Michael Moore may have to film a movie about evil restaurant owners in America to beat a rat..The restaurant craze in America--well into its 200th year, continues in box offices. RATATOUILLE looks to be having a great weekend.. The film has been getting...

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Shut down: What causes good restaurants to flop?

I cannot proclaim to be an expert on anything.. but in my area of Pennsylvania, you can fast become an expert on how not to run a business. Restaurants, or anything else for that matter, can begin with a wonderful premise.. a sports bar named after a team that were famous football champs the beginning of last century for example? Bankrupt in two years..So what does this? There can be a few different...

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Manager sues over KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

Chef Gordon Ramsay makes at least one chef angr...

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Goat on the menu

And it causes E ColiA slaughter of a goat in a kitchen in North Carolina leads to sickness and a Health Department investigation..We know weird stuff happens in all kitchens. Perhaps the goat slaughter... ahh.. a little too far?Interesting footnote to this article: I knew a man once that owned his own establishment that slaughtered goats in the alley way behind his building. Actually never served...

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The new fad in dining

Maybe it's because the entire world seems willing and ready to give up all of its secrets.. or maybe it's just the new trendy 'in' thing..Either way, when you go to a restaurant in the near future, you maybe won't get as much as that romantic privacy that you once craved.TIME MAGAZINE reports that communal tables are becoming the new way to di...

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Minimum wage anger up north..

Foodservice industry responds to Alberta's minimum wage increa...

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Slurpy drunk in the Neighborhood

Pretty big mess up.. and pretty tough to have happen, but this championship restaurant did it: A magarita got served to a toddler in a sippy cup!Funny got scary though when the child beecome very sick and starting vomiting..Applebees says it will no longer keep juice and margarita mix in similiar-looking co...

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Go ahead.. eat something absolutely disgusting..

Foie Gras back on the front burner at city hall.. according to CBS Chicago.. Very wealthy people that apparantly with really strong stomachs eating Foie Gras .. what a wonderful world -- as Louie Armstong sings..A duck or goose fattened force fed 12 to 18 days before slaughter..It's better than veal!Veal is only...

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Waited on doctors tonight.. one interesting heart doctor that walks away from the table for a half hour at a time and then comes back expecting he is going to go where he left on from.. odd, odd man. Rich, odd odd man..Another doctor gave me that old hand signal that every wait person hates: The two fingers in the air suggesting that they're ready to order. Yep. When I have the chance Also cooked....

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Another blog.. not sure how many exist about the restaurant industry. I am no where near my goal in life: Owning my own eatery. But I guess no one is really ever near their true goal of happiness until they luck out and get there through hard work...If a goal is meant to be achieved, perhaps first a realistic glance at the industry itself must be considered..Across America, restaurants are the fasest...

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