Let there be soup on your flies, too

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I know chances are, you are too..
So come on .. it's one click. Just like us.
Or ignore it...Like a bad menu item at your least favorite chain..

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To serve man

SOUP ON MY FLY began as a way to document the non-exciting life and times of a server in the modern restaurant world. I tried to impact lives with thoughts about what it means to actually 'serve' to others.. the weird folks you meet along the way.
I was joined when this site first started by lots of others doing the same thing.
And now, I have come to notice, that they sort of have fallen away.. Their websites linger without updates, stale content just waiting to be deleted by whatever server the information is hosted on.

In 2011, I had a son named Ayden. I decided at that time to step away from the heat and go into submission.. My main job, which I don't blog about, still exists. Catering/serving/bartending was always my secondary employment--but so often took up the most mental thought time.. Now, three years and some days after Ayden was born, the need for supplementary income has taken shape, and a new job is born: Serving again.

There is some natural guilt, though. I will be working as part of part time as I can--being a father and being a husband are really the most important jobs I have, and they are two jobs that mean a lot more than throwaway cash.  There is a delicate balance, one I intend on balancing and succeeding in. And if the second job doesn't as well for me as it did before I had a child.. it's off. Over. Kerplunk.
Either way you'll hear about it.

So expect more content.. I don't want to let SOUP ON MY FLY get too cold..
Maybe I can turn this sucka into a book one day.
It worked for other.
Maybe me?

Serve away Merril!
We're coming back.

TO SERVE MAN

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Soup is on the pot.. more to come

A new part time serving job awaits .. More to come on that.
I'm getting back into the game after two years of retreat..
Let the stories begin.

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So..............

I want to have a good truck. What y'all think of that?

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The crash of marriages

I wrote yesterday about a friend who said weddings were drying up at a local catering hall.

And today,  this news: Marriage rates are at their lowest levels ever.

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A summer update: When the weddings dry up and the sun still shines. . where are lovers getting married these days?

Hope everyone has been well..

I received an interesting message from a former co-worker at the part time catering job.. Apparently, the world of weddings have been crashing--economic factors, perhaps?

Get this.. according to this unnamed person about this unnamed location, there are only two (2!) weddings set for this summer. Keep in mind, only four and five years ago, this location was hosting one, sometimes two weddings, each week. As a matter of fact, the summers of 2008 and 2009 were pretty profitable... eight to twelve weddings from June through October is a great record..

But this year, two? 

And the food is fine.. the atmosphere is fine.. Something is amiss here.

Just wondering to all who pass by this page, lend a comment if you  have seen the same type of situation occurring in your part of the kitchen. Is this a glitch, area dependent? Or are people taking the cheap route and going to the firehouse wedding scene?

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EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!

Support an old friend.. here is it..
http://earnmoretipsonyourverynextshift.blogspot.com

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Ruby Tuesday, what is wrong with you!

I know this is a blog.. but I don't know if I'd even have enough webspace to go into detail on all that is wrong with Ruby Tuesday..

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Happy 2013 everyone

I looked back a bit on this website and realized just how much I have changed throughout the years since I started this.. Amazing.
We're now in 2013. Let's go at it then.

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The new years thing

As mentioned, I have been out of the 'industry' for several months now. But I have said before, and will say again, the worst time to work in a restaurant is Mother's Day, followed by New Years Eve. It's amateur hour.. people who take their 'girls' out for a night and buy expensive food but have no clue how to pronounce the wine they are ordering. Or sometimes not even being able to pronounce the food they want. No, sir, "Salmon Rushdie" is not on tonight's menu..

I am not going out this year. My wife and I are going to cook dinner at home, crack open a bottle of nice wine, and watch the ball drop ... if we make it. Our son goes to bed around 9 .. he wakes up by 6am. So it may be best for us to catch the Zs and avoid TVs.

When  I worked the restaurant scene on New Years Eve, I always felt like I was out. After all, it's a fun night for staff.. They get to watch the cocktails get slammed back by jerks and morons who can't handle them.. The bartender never had a good time, though. That is, unless the bartender also enjoyed getting those jerks and morons drunk off their touches...

So I am wondering.. will you be heralding in the new year in a tuxedo as a customer, a worker, or perhaps just sticking at home..?

Please comment. I'd love to know.

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