Back again for another weekly roundup of strange news stories from restaurants around the country. This week’s list was remarkably easy to compile. Some weeks I feel like I have to stretch to find interesting stories. This week most of the effort went into limiting the list to my maximum number of twelve. Here are another dirty dozen stories for you this week.
I am still tweaking with the format of this column. I decided this week to capitalize on the “man bites dog” aspect of each story. All great stories start with something familiar and then there is a twist. The twist is what transforms a normal story into something of note. Most of these stories are basic on the surface, but they all have a twist. Here is what I mean.
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Sep 04, 2010 @ 14:17:02
Many, many years ago, when I worked at a pizza joint in Westport with two 16 year old twin girls who were boy crazy, there was a VERY busy Saturday night when two guys walked out on their (sizable) tab.
We called Westport Security and they came and asked if we could describe them. The Twins popped up with a very detailed head to toe description of both of them, and within 30 minutes Security had them. The descriptions were so exact, they had no trouble finding them at the old country western club up the street. (The cowboy boots were a clue.)
By the time they were escorted back in to the restaurant, every patron there had heard about what was happening. The thieves had to do a walk of shame because every table burst into applause as they were marched past.
They paid their tab and were about to leave when I said very loudly, “And don’t forget to tip your waitress!” All eyes were on them and one of them threw some bills on the bar and they left. Said waitress got a 50% tip because they were so shamed.
I love that story.
Sep 05, 2010 @ 00:15:08
It is moment of great justice like that which make me smile.
Sep 04, 2010 @ 17:17:17
OMG. These are all awesome stories. I had to break in the middle of this post just to tell you how great this link collection is, great work
Sep 05, 2010 @ 00:13:22
Aww shucks. For those who don’t know Tony he is the Godfather of blogging in the town I call home. He was the first to write about this blog in it’s infancy and I still consider him the Patron of it. I also will proudly admit that his posting style heavily influenced this particular feature of the blog.
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