Archive for January 16th, 2007

Taking orders

All right, so I’ve been to a few restaurants while I’ve been here, and once upon a time I used to wait tables. It has only now occurred to me the ingenious system some of the Japanese restaurants use to take orders. The servers get this electronic notepad, and while I’m not an expert on this, I have the feeling that what they type in goes straight back to the kitchen. How cool is that? The reason I find this fun is because while I was considered a good server, I had been known to forget to put in an order. I think this system works out rather well ‘cuz you can’t really forget to put in an order if you’re computing it all right there, yeah?

I’ve really been into salads lately. This is the second night in a row I had salad for dinner. I guess it’s better than the crap I was eating last week.