Side Work Podcast

We share our first server submitted story! We then explore all the ways a server gets slammed, overwhelmed, and deep into the WEEDS. When you're subjected to the PTSD of being in the weeds over and over and over again that leads to.... server nightmares, AKA waitmares. Then our good buddy James Dunn drops in to talk about working every back of house position at a restaurant before being promoted to server.

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Restaurants are gross, people are gross and the two combined together make for some gross topics of conversation. We are here to ruin every day restaurant items you never gave a second thought to while dining out. Also - tips for servers not to be slovenly such as: WASH YOUR APRON. Then, our good friend, long time server, bartender and now GM of LA's most "Irish-ish"bar drags himself out of bed after a closing shift to weave tales of the horror and delight of working on Hollywood Blvd and wondering if Drunk Sonic the Hedgehog finally died.

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The ladies launch into the "charade" of service from elegant table crumbing, to pepper grinding, to pretending you give a sh*t about someones birthday. We interview our sound engineer Brian Lucas who recalls a very distinct night when he kept his restaurant open 'til 6AM for Kiefer Sutherland. This story is EVERYTHING.

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We jump back in talking about our frustration with customers: the life blood of the industry, the ones who are "always right", AKA the most soul-sucking people on earth. Then we speak with comedian Nick Turner who was a server at the TGI Friday's in Times Square NYC. Enough said.

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In Episode 03 Pt. I (Already going into the world of two-parters??)We are dishing some dirt - edible dirt in this installment! The girls talk about the non-server, the plebe, THE CUSTOMER. What makes them good or bad, considered a regular, or a professional scam artist? We drop celebrity customers names like a tray of drinks! Then, after discussing nightmare restaurant owners in the last episode, the gals invite restaurant and bar owner Aaron Sine to defend his side of the job. What's not to love about someone who tries to force customers to eat 100 shrimp and get their picture on the wall of a seafood chain?

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In Episode 02 the girls jump right in and a play a new game called "Am I Getting Sick?", discuss loose salads, and Chef Ludo which brings them to this episode's main topic: Owners. Someone's gotta own the place you work at and usually these people are nuts, criminals and or both. Also, we discuss the drugs that fuel the biz. Later on, we speak with Mara Herron who does not look back fondly on her time in the service industry even though she got to work at her hero, P. Diddy's now defunct NYC club, Justin's.

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In Episode 01, the girls dish about the awful dishes they served at their first restaurant jobs and, since it's the holidays, the Battle Royale that breaks out between servers when the Christmas and New Year's Eve schedule gets posted. Comedian Matt Braunger stops by to talk about eight years in the trenches. We learn about LA hipster waiters, "onion slivers", impromptu drum circles, and an illicit love affair that happened in the walk-in at a pizza chain.

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