or even just that after enduring the Stockholm syndrome training course that is infant childminding, you really want that rare bit of adult time with someone else doing the taking care of.

and at that, Joe Bastianich apparently felt he had to grift from his employees to make bank. They’re ridiculously successful, and they’ve lost a lot of actions by their waitstaff.

You know, it never really occurred to me that tomato soup was constructed.

But then you have to factor the food you paid for and couldn’t sell (and a lot of fresh restaurant food can’t be stored for later) into the food costs for the food you did sell.

I feel like his exit strategy is going to be revealing the long-ago onset of senile dementia, so his kids have some serious incentive to pull the trigger.

Nah. I think they figured out a while ago that Paul Ryan was a moron.

Wow, this is disingenuous. Women of color in the actual electorate apparently disagree with the heightening the contradictions strategy the leadership of the corporate March promote, since they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.

After he interviewed Malcolm X and Dr King, Alex Haley interviewed George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party for Playboy. Rockwell made that exact ‘slip’ six times.

Before he went to Politico and became a situational conservative activist, Ben Smith (the guy who drives their political coverage) was a liberal Democrat covering Manhattan politics for the Daily News. This would not be his first cookout.

If @BuzzFeed takes down trump this would be the ultimate millennial triumph! Take that baby boomers!

_You figure out which places will seat you immediately and which ones make you wait. Go to the places that let you sit immediately_

But, the thing is, whether or not the venue is OK with it, you’re making a reservation that you know your group is going to blow past, and that’s kind of stressful for the people who have to deal with it. You have the option of not doing that.

And what should the e-mail from the people who got spotty service because the restaurant was trying to accommodate your party’s inability to show up on time say?

Some places do. I had a restaurant I was booking a large table at (party of 25) take my credit card information so they could charge me $250 if we didn’t show up.

Not meaning to pile on here, but while it’s charitable of you to take that view if you’re the only person being inconvenienced, you’ve now inconvenienced the restaurant by making a reservation for people you know won’t be there, so essentially you’re the one demanding charity. Which is not a particularly generous way…

Melania took an air force plane to Mar a Lago for a vacation last night.

the Grammy-winning Atlanta rapper’s long history of political activism—some more on-point than others

The child-friendly version sounds like it would make better-than-usual vegan mac and cheese.

I’m not sure I understand how the servers enter into this. They’re talking about revenue loss for the owners of the restaurant.

Or you can tell your friends the 6:30 reservation is at 6.