I used to have jokes and trenchant comments, but why bother?

Thank you for your service.

I’m looking forward to pummeling that dead horse too.

These are the same people who grumble about the Rooney Rule because it hinders their ability to hire the best-qualified candidate.

Just a note that 23 light years away isn’t really “that corner” of our galaxy, it’s straight up our corner, it’s on our block, not even one street over. The Milky Way is approximately 200 000 light years in diameter.

Here is the dictionary definition.

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Hanover is even worse.

The microwave comes into play too, you can get single-serving ready-made units that you nuke for a minute.  They saw a market they couldn’t reach and an opportunity, and came up with a solution.

There are all sorts of food cost and employee theft issues. Did you sneak a couple fries off that plate you’re about to run out to a table? Are you eating instead of working? Did you take a bite out of that éclair in the garbage can, below the rim, on that doily?

You had to pick them out, not scrape them into the garbage along with everything else, because you never know if twelve hours later you won’t get a garbage container fire, so that was fun.

Restaurant work is where I first heard and learned the expression ‘Time to lean, time to clean.’ Inevitably, it would end up that you had three or four staff members polishing silverware or folding napkins together, and you’d start to chatter and it would often veer negative. Now, the thing was, I was a young buck,…

The thing about Bush Senior, he could never be faulted for his credentials. True Yale man who truly went to class and everything, played baseball so there’s some cred there too, he actually did the sports. He was a navy pilot who served, so he also did the war tough-guy thingy, unlike Ronnie, W. with his scam National…

The restaurants/bars were part of a very high-end hotel, so there was a desire to limit familiarity between customers and staff, but also it was a security issue. Having access to the back of the house and being a customer gave rise to all sorts of employee theft scenarios, all sorts of scams.

The secret is to use really stale bread, really let the batter soak in the bread. Stale bagels, stale anything really, but man, stale croissants? Expect a marriage proposal or two. Then, once you’ve browned both sides, finish in the oven, so the batter is fully done and puffed up and delicious.

Yeah.  I grew up with parents who made dinner from scratch, you learned by observing and having to help, by osmosis.  Then you discovered you had school friends who literally didn’t know what the oven was for, they thought that’s where you kept the pans and the pots.

The frozen veggies are so key.  Colours up your dish, nutritionalizes it too, tarts it up.  People used to laugh when I’d say I was making box macaroni for dinner.  Once you’ve thrown in the veggies it becomes pasta primavera, and then you grate extra cheese on top, maybe broil it for a minute or two?  They come…

Yep. If there’s one thing I learned in training staff it’s that you can’t start from the beginning enough. What you think is common knowledge isn’t necessarily so. Doing driver training, explaining the pre-trip inspection, I learned not to assume that everyone had the same experience growing up, tinkering with dirt…

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Anything that teaches knife skills. If I see another movie or TV show with the perfect TV wife dutifully preparing dinner for her family as she routinely does in her TV life, by chopping carrots with a steak knife in a hacking motion, I’ll... I’ll... I’ll change the channel and grumble.