Something Green In Your Meal? Pray It’s Spinach
Oh dear. I found an MSN article (via LifeHack.org) called 10 Things Your Restaurant Won’t Tell You which is timely because apparently Americans now spend around half their food budget on eating out.
I knew I shouldn’t click on the article, simply because I eat out a lot (especially now, while I’m on the road) and I was expecting the worst. I was right, it was grim. “A lot of poor, transient people work in restaurants… They’re not giving up the $100 they’d make in a shift because they’re sick.”
On the bright side, it must be strengthening my antibodies. 
And I learned a couple of handy tips.
1. Be wary of ’specials’ - they might be old leftovers buried under gravy or sauce.
2. Eating out on a Monday? It may be the quieter option, but it’s also leftover night.
3. Dinner at a casual restaurant may be a more fatty experience than buying a burger, because butter is often used liberally in dishes.
Bottom line: Can’t wait to get home, have a kitchen, visit the supermarket, and cook my own nice stuff again without having to worry about snot in my soup. Just a few more weeks…
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Maybe this will be the kick in the butt that I need to stop going out to eat so much!
July 12th, 2007 at 11:29 amTo be honest, it probably won’t stop me… I’m too lazy!
July 12th, 2007 at 11:42 amHA HA! I’m dying! The restaurant I worked at for 6 years is mentioned in #9 on tip pooling, although the article doesn’t mention that is was the function/banquet managers taking the banquet servers’ money. Not the regular restaurant servers.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:24 pmWow, the ones who won $2.5 million? How many people got a cut of that?
July 12th, 2007 at 8:48 pm