http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/(c) Roadfood.com Discussion Board30I was helping a customer when his phone rang. I waited while he answered it and talked. He shook his head when he hung up and said to me: "There's got to be a problem somewhere when your eleven year old kid calls yohttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554391Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:21:15 GMTI'll support what a number of posters have mentioned: 1) green bean casserole: I could never stomach that canned cream of mushroom stuff, and the waterlogged canned green beans didn't help 2) sweet potato casserole with mini marshmahttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554390Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:17:21 GMTI find it more exciting than meeting a movie or TV type star. Here's mine: Emeril at a Firey Food Show in NOLA Guy Fieri when I went to Fab Hot Dogs and was locked out because he was inside filming Marthttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554386Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:34:57 GMTDavydd that's a pretty awesome Bourdain story! Guy Fieri was at a joint about two blocks from where I work about a month ago. Didn't go.http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554384Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:17:22 GMTEmeril Lagasse would be a good meet up. My daughter in northern Virginia was picked out not once, but twice, to be interviewed at a Whole Foods Market by Emeril Lagasse for some kind of show segment or promotion he was doing. My closest encouhttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554374Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:56:49 GMTThe customer may not always be right, but the customer has to be egregiously wrong before I face him down. Win the battle, lose the war. Back when I had my restaurant it was just the risk of an upset customer spreading bad word of mouth abouthttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554366Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:45:38 GMTHaha, that's great. Did you wait in line? I really like Emeril...he seems like such a jovial guy....now Guy I could do without but that's neither here nor there. Did you get a word in with any of the other guys? Now "foodnetwork celebrity" is ahttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554364Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:37:48 GMTJoe's shop has a sign hanging in it that reads "Prices subject to change according to customer attitude" Man that's a good episode. Kramer: "...but what am I going to do for fruit?" Kramer: "...now get the ones that are red on the inshttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554363Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:37 GMTIt seems to be almost an annual tradition for me to run into a food network celebrity although my past encounters involved me being out of town and with other Roadfooders. My first encounter was almost 4 years to the day at the Lexington Market in Bhttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554362Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:43 GMT wj, I'll take Minnesota Nice over the attitude of the Northeast Corridor anytime. One of my jobs at Target was to troubleshoot construction and maintenance problems at their stores all over the country. There was a whttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554358Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:40 GMTIts never pleasant but you have to keep your eyes open all the time. Many of these customers,if you let them get one over on you,will come back and try to beat you out of twice as much. Very true!http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554355Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:30 GMTwj, I'll take Minnesota Nice over the attitude of the Northeast Corridor anytime. One of my jobs at Target was to troubleshoot construction and maintenance problems at their stores all over the country. There was a wide difference in attitudehttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554350Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:15 GMTEating - I'm sure Kings Hawaiian has more flavor than the rolls I'm talking about - and Felix - they still make them- you see them stacked on pallets in all of the grocery stores during the holidays, usually made by local bread companies, hadhttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554349Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:57 GMT After 38 years in retail and wholesale business,I can tell you that the customer is **not** always right.There are actually times when the customer is trying to take food off your table(not in a restaurant sense).Fortunately it doesnt happen all thttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554348Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:27 GMT " The customer is always right " came from A RETAIL store in Chicago... nothing to do with restaurants at all, If you want to eat out , and be waited on , please tip!!! thank you very much. http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554346Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:29 GMT WHAT!? my favorite cousin lovin' my favorite sammich!!?? how in the world did I miss that!!!?http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554345Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:41 GMT The restaurant was stupid and they will now get what they deserve. If you want to stay in business there is a saying, "The customer is always right." That saying means whether the customer is right or wrong, they are ahttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554339Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:11 GMTThe restaurant was stupid and they will now get what they deserve. If you want to stay in business there is a saying, "The customer is always right." That saying means whether the customer is right or wrong, they are always right because more goodhttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554335Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:05 GMT Okay, okay, I can take a hint. But as punishment for whining, you will be forced to look at a photo of me (and some friends). http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/JCStrutz/Roadfood5/Picture297.jpghttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554323Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:52:52 GMT...They told her she was obligated to pay the difference or she would be arrested. She refused and was arrested and spent the night in jail. Asst. DA dropped the charges... ...why would you not just pull out a $5 bill at this poihttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554314Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:03 GMTDawn T, I like the way you think. It would be most interesting if the restaurant saw to it that the service bill of 18% went completely to their help or might some have been skimmed off? I would hope that the couple asked the powers that be if that was thttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554311Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:49 GMT Dawn and Andrea, mandatory gratuities are legally unenforcable, at least here in Pennsylvania. Would it be possible for Bethlehem to have municipal ordinance that overrides this?&nbsphttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554310Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:24:50 GMTIf you look at some of the comments left at some Bethlehem area sites, the owner is a known bottom-feeding entrepreneur who took over a well respected pub;; many comments at the time (spring of '09) were along the lines of "It looks like Dale is going tohttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554309Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:21:32 GMTBloody Mary or Mimosa before the meal; ponot noir with the meal; coffee with dessert.http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554303Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:02 GMTWe had an incident that happened here where a patron disputed a bill over the price difference between a small bowl of soup she said she ordered and large bowl of soup served. Minisule amount compared to the amount of the bill that couldn't have beehttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554295Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:28:00 GMTI believe the police overstepped their authority. This is/was a civil matter. A legal dispute between two parties, not a criminal offense. If the students refused to show identification, then the police could have been callehttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554282Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:24:40 GMTBrad, I doubt it. We've all seen the sign in a restaurant's coatroom that states, "Not Responsible For Lost Or Stolen Things"? I had a lawyer tell me that they indeed are responsible, if not he said you could put a sign on your car "Not Resonshttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554281Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:44 GMTHaha...damn! I knew the onion rings would give it away...APLENTY! http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554276Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:30:05 GMT gotta go with the BEACON!!!http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554274Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:26:58 GMTOkay...I'll sit this one out. It may be easy though: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_2T8KYI94O70/Sq6zKNA5uGI/AAAAAAAAApU/4FaaJHyHWB0/s720/015.JPGhttp://www.roadfood.com/Forums/fb.ashx?m=554271Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:22:44 GMT