My kids and I were in a different town last week and I insisted on looking around the courthouse for a diner. They didn’t understand why, since there was a McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, etc. out on the highway. I found a storefront pizza place, which was really a diner in the old sense of the word. I got a huge lasagna, a salad with about twelve ingredients, and hot garlic toast for about $5. The kids were excited to find they could order their own strange combination meals (just like home). And I explained why a locally-owned restaurant would always be a better choice, despite the wobbly furniture and jukebox that doesn’t work. I’m pretty sure they believed me, and since then we’ve tried several of my old haunts they don’t remember visiting before. They are just old enough to break out of their consistancy bubble. Life is good.

How to Irritate People

Ten Things Your Restaurant Will Not Tell You.

Nobody ever gets Jane’s order right. I’d like to see that tatoo on her forehead!

The Ordering Game to play at restaurants. My kids would lose miserably at this. (via J-Walk Blog)

Entertaining letters to restaurants.

Dinner in the Sky is a Brussels based restaurant that serves dinner for up to 22 people... 150 feet in the air! The specially-designed table and chairs are lifted by a crane. Dinner anywhere in Belgium will set you back almost 8 million Euros, other locations are also available. Remember, you must wear your seat belt, and don’t drop your fork!  (via Cynical-C)

A restaurant situated inside a top security prison in Italy opened just two months ago, and is already so popular that officials are considering opening other branches. (via Arbroath)

Forbes Ten Most Unusual Restaurants in the World.

Chain Restaurants (click to play)

Diner slang.

Make up your own story about a restaurant.

Meltdown, a grilled-cheese only restaurant. (via Grow-A-Brain)

Quaker Steak and Lube is a racing-themed restaurant chain. They seem to be all over the South and Midwest, but I’ve never heard of it til recently. Would you eat at a place with such a name? (via All-Night Surfing)

STEAK

(Thanks, Phil!)

A rancher and his bitchy wife were seated in a fancy restaurant while on vacation in Paris. When the waiter arrived, the rancher said, "I'll have a big juicy porterhouse steak."

"Oui, monsieur," the waiter replied, "but what about ze mad cow?"

"Hell," said the rancher, "just bring her a salad."

THUMB

A waiter brings the customer the steak he ordered with his thumb over the meat.

"Are you crazy?" yelled the customer, "with your hand on my steak?"

"What," answers the waiter, "You want it to fall on the floor again?"

 


I am pleased to know that about our waiter.

He got a big tip. 

THE HUSBAND

A man and a beautiful woman were having dinner in a fine restaurant. Their waitress (taking another order at a table a few paces away) suddenly noticed that the man was slowing sliding down his chair and under the table, but the woman acted unconcerned.

The waitress watched as the man slid all the way down his chair and out of sight under the table.

Still, the woman dining across from him appeared calm and unruffled, apparently unaware that her dining companion had disappeared.

After the waitress finished taking the order, she came over to the table and said to the woman, "Pardon me, ma'am, but I think your husband just slid under the table.

The woman calmly looked up at her and replied, "No he didn't. He just walked in the door."

Previously at Miss Cellania: Restaurant, Seafood, and Eating Out

Thought for today: The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. -George Carlin

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