Blogs.

Their is a blog I read periodically called http://thebitchywaiter.com/, he's awesome.  Blogs and comics I ignore and then get caught up on on a monthly basis or so.  I've ignored Bitchy for awhile and skimmed through for a bit.  I noticed that he has a group of blogs either that he reads or he just likes.

For the most part they all deal with the F&B industry.  Oddly enough, I do miss the... rush... insanity?  I don't know what to call it really.  Reading some of these blogs will let me vicariously live in the restaurants again.  Truly I would like to find a nightclub or topless bar blog to really sink my teeth into but I haven't yet.  Of course I haven't really tried that hard.

Hearing about some blogger complaining about a customer just makes my day complete or something.  Here's a story from when I worked in a restaurant.

A lot of servers have superstitions about who will and who will not tip.  When you actually listen to the servers you realize that many of them say everyone except older white businessmen don't tip.  I learned early on in my "career" that is not true but some people don't want to learn.  Anyway, one restaurant wasn't in the greatest area and my servers were playing their version of "Bingo".

A waiter (white guy) came up to me and said he was the first to have bingo for the night and his shift only started ten minutes ago.  What's bingo mean?  When a whole table is full of black people.  If we weren't on the floor I probably would have yelled at him.  I didn't yell, I just told him that he can't do that.  My reasons were simple:

1.  It's wrong.
2.  Some people tip, some don't.  If you expect them to not tip then they probably won't.
3.  Probably illegal.
4.  This company will fire your ass for something like this.

While I'm telling him this a waitress (black lady) comes up and says that she has "Blackout Bingo" already.  What the hell is "Blackout Bingo"?  That's when every seat at every table has a black person in it.  That's when I felt the headache starting.  I told both servers that I don't want to hear anymore about the game and walked away from them.

The waiter was a pretty good one but I wouldn't trust him with a shiny quarter.  The waitress was pretty bad but I actually miss her, she had a sense of humor like mine.  If you're an attractive woman you can say things that I can't.