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… or they have kids. There really is nothing like cooking a good meal to have the kids scream “I want noodles”. I also have this part-time vegan daughter. She LOVES bacon, but when I’m making pasta with meat sauce, I get stupid requests like “no sauce” or worse “no meat in my sauce”. She likes...

Daddio: You’re asking for private information. I don’t want to apply at 20 places and have 10 of them check my references. When references are the thing stopping you from offering me the job, I’ll gladly provide them. How do I know I even want to work for you?

I’m not a garlic expert or even a cooking expert. However, in watching cooking shows, the main points are to get the garlic fresh, chop in small pieces to get the most surface area, and be careful not to burn the garlic. You mentioned using granulated garlic, but I wasn’t sure if you were...

It looks like I might be in for the ride of my life and actually opening a full-service restaurant. The stars aren’t in alignment yet, but they appear to be moving closer to the alignment I need :). Of course, I looked here for POS suggestions, but being a software support guy by trade, I had...

I see a GIANT opportunity for “green” in restaurants – induction cooking. It is reported that induction cooking is 90%+ efficient vs sub 50% for electric or gas, and that’s just the COOKING. The lack of ambient heat caused by the inefficiency of heat transfer by electric coil or gas flame, would...

Registered Guest: Just make sure you give him the same speech about how guns aren’t allowed at work. It’s all about insurance and liability. Don’t wink and nudge nudge. However, if you read the story, twice, he failed to comply because doing so would have caused his gun to be visible. It’s...

I doubt the story ends with no Happy Meals. I bet it ends with every child getting a toy with any order. Better yet, every Happy Meal comes with a bumper sticker that says “gubbermint sucks” and every bumper sticker comes with a toy. 🙂

Daddio: Um, if we don’t die, it’s hardly a fatal crash 🙂

The big downside to shaving your head is that sweat pours right off instead of being sponged up by your hair. As such, you need something on your crown when in heated environments (you know, that kitchen place). It can be a baseball cap, a skull cap, or a “do rag”, but you need a sweat catcher...

You’ve hit the nail on the head with working with family. Golly gee, sometimes, you need 'em, but other times, they cause more trouble than they seem to be worth. If running a business isn’t what she wants to do, GREAT. Let her work somewhere else (literally). Let her enjoy doing what she likes...

There are a ton of variables that determine price. For instance, if you buy software that requires you to buy their hardware, it costs more. HOWEVER, you typically will run into fewer problems because they require specific hardware. Their support techs support a limited scope of hardware and...

I work in IT and support customer-facing web apps. Almost daily, I’m amazed at the requests we get for “improvements” to the system. Some make perfect sense, but some are just one-off oddball things. I think part of the issue is that the software is designed to work a certain way. Because I...

This topic actually hits close to home. If we ever get our restaurant up and running, kids are going to be a very definite part of the equation. My 8 year old has already told me that she’s the manager and she will be making up all the recipes. Yeah, I squelched that quickly. However, there will...

I’ve never seen so many people trying to find reasons to not try getting into Nick’s pants. Hopefully Kim isn’t as opposed 🙂

Get a sample and test it out. The way to keep a fridge magnet in use is to hold stuff to the fridge. If the magnet can’t hold a couple of thick papers to the fridge and take a little abuse too, without falling off, they’re going to end up in the trash can. Don’t get me wrong, some people will...

Paint giant arrows in the parking lot that lead to your door. Never over-estimate the intelligence of a driver. 🙂

paul7979: I doubt his Camaro is worth that much more. As far as great muscle cars go, the 70s Camaros are a lOT less collectible than the 67-69 Camaro, and the 76 Trans Am (in black, thanks to Smokey and the Bandit). The mid-70s Camaros are really the poor man’s classic car. The early 70s GM...

They could be in one of those rural areas where from prefix 1, number 1 is long distance, but not from prefix 2. My wife used to have one of those “jumper” numbers that could call three prefixes with none being a toll call, but the first prefix was LD to the third prefix and vice-versa...

Western Sizzler used to have one that I loved as a teen. Huge potatoes, mushroom gravy, more mushrooms, lots of cheese and cheese sauce. I’d eat the guts of the tater and then go for round two, stuffing the potato again. Just fair warning about what someone like me could do to the profit margin...

Wasn’t Nick the one posting about um, sweat, chafing and such. These pants have been washed repeately, right? 🙂