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[motivationalquoteoftheday]

Motivational Quote of the day for Sunday, July 12, 2020

[badcatmike-blog]

Really gotta read this cover 2 cover sometime. Ive read sections of this Rant ..have 2 say it has not dissapointed. A definite read for any server or anybody who dines out for that matter.

[idkyoubutiprobablyloveyou]

Lots of people believe in the paranormal. Me? I a skeptic about such things. Whenever I see one of those “Ghosthunter” shows on cable I think it’s just a bunch of spurious claims with fast cutaways and screeching music leading into ten minutes of commercials for hair loss fixes, diet pills, fitness gizmos, funeral insurance, diabetes supplies, catheters and cash for structured settlements. Seems their target demographic is a very unhappy lot. But people of all cultures have been seeing ghosts for thousands of years. You can’t dismiss centuries of anecdotal evidence out of hand. Those “pictures” of ghosts are very creepy too. Sure, some are done with photographic trickery, but some defy explanation. So, is there something to ghosts? Maybe. My personal, lightly researched and highly amateur opinion is that ghosts are shadows in time. While we perceive time as linear (Possibly due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics) physicists have shown us that time is very weird.  General relativity shows us our view of “time” is “relative” to our speed and position in Einstein’s “spacetime” universe. And on the quantum level, or impossibly small scales, time devolves into a “foam” of probability or may not even exist in a way we will ever understand. But experiments have shown these theories produce reliable results repeatedly – so something is up. And some scientists even postulate that everything happening in the universe – from the Big Bang to me eating breakfast this morning – is all happening all at once.   Everything that has happened or will happened has already happened – we just can’t see it. Maybe “ghosts” happen when, for whatever reason, the separation between our linear view of view of time and that “Eternal Now” blurs. Remember what Einstein said, “The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion?”  Perhaps for a second, the illusion falters and we catch a confused glimpse of what’s truly happening all around us. Maybe what we’re seeing is just people in that past and future living their humdrum lives. Have you ever noticed how mundane most stories of ghost sightings are? A face in a window, a person walking down a hallway or a person standing in a field? I think you might just be seeing a shadow from another time flickering onto our sense of reality. But how we react to this possible phenomenon, because it’s so weird, is to freak the fuck out, causing us to unconsciously project our cultural and personal experiences onto the event and conjure up bogeymen and poltergeists. Since humans are hardwired to find patterns, we create stories to make sense of these fleeting experiences.  But all it might be is a shadow in time and no cause for fear. It’s just one of those cool things that happen – like rainbows, blood moons, comets and eclipses. Those were once all things that awed and terrified early man too – but now they’re easily explained. Maybe even ghosts will eventually have a rational explanation. Perhaps the same is true for the experience of “past lives.” I have had the sense I have lived somewhere before or was someone else.  Maybe, for a second, my brain perceived the consciousness of another person in the Eternal Now. But humans, being rather self-centered, make it all about them. “I was the King of France!” they’ll say. “I was Joan of Arc!” Hmmm. Rather grandiose don’t you think?  Funny how no one says they were a sex slave of Genghis Khan, a member of the SS or a leper in biblical Palestine.  I guess that’s not sexy. Maybe it’s just a stray thought from a person living in 1354 popping into our 2018 heads and vice versa. Hey, maybe that explains Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon and the visions of the prophets. Who knows?

Steve Dublanica via Waiter Rant 

[nearlynineteen-blog]

But seduction isn't making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already”

Steve Dublanica

[thegondolaman]

Waiting - By Steve Dublanica

I'm a waiter. I bring food to tables in exchange for tips. At first glance it seems like a simple job. Just be neat, polite, display some salesmanship, and don't forget to smile. Easy, right? What world are you living in?

Today waiters are expected to be food-allergy specialists, sommeliers, cell-phone-rule enforcers, eye candy, confessors, entertainers, mixologists, emergency medical technicians, bouncers, receptionists, joke tellers, therapists, linguists, punching bags, psychics, protocol specialists, and amateur chefs. Foodie-porn TV programming has generated a new class of entitled customers with already overblown culinary expectations and a rapidly diminishing set of social graces. Economists say that the restaurant business is a bellwether of America's economic health--but I think it's a bellwether of the nations mental health as well. And let me tell you, 20 percent of the American dining public are socially maladjusted psychopaths. We should start putting Prozac in the Perrier.

[ariehyde]

Prepping for a catering order at the beach concessions for the sand castle contest. I'm excited because it smells like the ocean here!!! #ocean #concessions #beach #catering #preppinglikeaboss #restaurantlife #waiterrant

[books4evah-blog]

Lets start this review out by saying I'm totally bias to this book...I've worked in the food service industry for the last 3 years and I'm still going. It's a good book even for people who don't work in the industry to though so don't get picky on me. More so it was aimed at people who don't to show them the things people in the industry go through. Your not gonna like everything you read. He does some things you should hope your local waters don't do to you but he also does a lot of good and better then some I've experienced myself. With all the bad he did there was an equally unreasonable guest that most people agree probably deserved it. If you don't let's just hope you treat waitstaff like human beings and not slaves. Cause slavery was outlawed a long time ago my friends. Read it. If it doesn't show you the other perspective at least it was a little funny. Cause he's pretty humorous. Also, lets not forget, tip your servers or stay home. (; haha.

[restaurantgirlx-blog]

What's this all about?

If you've ever worked in the restaurant biz, you probably have some things in common with me. You know what it's like to be forced to smile and accommodate some of the most ridiculous requests while screaming on the inside. You're familiar with what it feels like to work for managers or owners who are potentially only about half as smart as you are. You know exactly how far you can travel while carrying a hot dish by calculating the temperature and weight and know you can still place it on the table gently enough to not cause any commotion. You know what it's like when I say working in a restaurant or bar can be like a bad relationship. You feel tortured and beat up and overworked but somehow there are those few glimpses into the good side of the industry (good friends, interesting customers, free drinks) that keep you going. And you've probably read Waiter Rant.

What's probably different from you and me is that I'm one of the crazies that relishes in accommodating that insane customer that seems impossible to please (and of course complaining about it later). And I'm not just dong this to make good money while I follow another dream. This is my dream. That's what this is all about. This is my journey to own my own restaurant, to run things the way I want to run them. For now, I'm choosing to stay anonymous but hopefully this is just the beginning of a trip that will end with us all sitting down in my restaurant, drinking bottles on bottles of wine and enjoying all the hard work I know I'm getting myself into.