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Do you move your plate?

As a server, and also an observant customer, I see people moving their plates. The server puts them down, and the customer moves them because they don't like where the server places them. Why don't you just take the plates from the server instead of letting the server put them on your table? There are tons of etiquette for servers, but what about customers? Why are they permitted to rudely move their...

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LUCK OF THE IRISH AT NOTRE DAME TURNS SOUR

SHE GOT A $29,000 TIP.. NOW NOTRE DAME SUES TO GETS ITS TIP BACK..The University of Notre Dame has a new tip for a catering employee they mistakenly gave a $29,000 gratuity check: Give it back.A lawsuit filed by the Indiana university claims Sara Gaspar used the accidental check to pay bills and buy a new car, MyFOX Chicago reported.Notre Dame claims the check, which was supposed to be for $29.87,...

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FAT DUCK UPDATE: THE VOMIT ENDS

Yes, I said "fat duck"..But say it fast ten times and you're not saying fat duck anymore..Back in March of this year, Soup on my Fly reported on some rumblings in the tumblings in Britain at an expensive restaurant called the Fat Duck -- it was prestigious and pricey. And Soup on my Fly's ending observation concluded...

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A BAD DAY FOR A WHITE WEDDING

..I pity couples when their wedding day has to take place on what should be a beautiful day but the weather doesn't cooperat...

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9/11 eight years later

..It's interesting. A part of my memory of that brutally cruel day eight years ago actually involves a restaurant. I worked the evening of Tuesday September 11 2001. It was a Rotary party at 5:30 at a now defunct restaurant called Henry's Family Dining. I remember some vague things .. I don't recall if they ate or not, but I do recall a dismissal early of their meeting due to the tragic events of...

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The Labor Day class reunion.....

50 years later..A few people looked like they needed a juicer to grind up their salads.. It's been a long weeke...

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..In the annals of 'tacky wedding moments'

It's not enough that the wedding was late because the limo got pulled over by cops on the way to the reception -- although it was a 'practical joke' .. (One that the limo driver, however, was not in on....)It was still not enough that the groomsman during dinner chose to dry-hump the running water fountain in...

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LABOR DAY WEEKEND BEGINS...

The sun is shining.. temperatures are comfortable.. it's late summer and you can feel that hint of the early fall majesty. And someone picked today for a wedding .. and two classes picked tomorrow to reunite.. There goes the weeke...

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WHEN BANG FOR THE BUCK IS OUTRIGHT DISGUSTING

Have you ever been told by people you worked with or friends that there's a "great place" that gives you a lot of food? Ever been led down that path? Have you ever been informed of "really good steaks" at the local "hole in the wall"? I work pretty far from where I live, and where I live ..? Eh some good places...

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