Food for thought ¦ Kids Activities Blog

Greg and I went out on the town this night for dinner. We considered all our favorites, merely weren't hungry enough or in the right location so we went back to Brio. Last time we went we idea it was good, merely zero great. Information technology is ordinarily packed and we figured a Tuesday evening should permit us to be seated right away.

We were right and equally we were being seated the waiter asked the states, "Have you lot eaten hither earlier?"   I know that might sound benign to about, but that is ane of my biggest pet peeves (OK, maybe not a big one) considering information technology is a silly question. It doesn't matter what my answer is because that will be the end of the chat except in the insane instance that I say "no" and the waiter volition proceed to explain to me how to swallow in a eating house.

This may seem lilliputian with no groundwork, and then permit's go back in time….circa 2000…eating place: Bahama Breeze…at Bahama Cakewalk they were In a higher place normal restaurants and didn't employ waitstaff, they employed "tour guides" who would take you lot on a magical tour of their principal attraction–the 100 page menu. They would come to the tabular array and ask if you lot had ever eaten at that place before. If you said "aye" you lot were saved the 20 infinitesimal presentation. If you said "no" then sit down downward my friend you are nigh to go on a very long journey down through the appetizers, up the mountain of salads, over the river of drinks, under the principal courses and DON'T even ask about dessert. It was so condesending that you felt like they thought they had invented the concept of a restaurant and y'all would demand a bout guide to make information technology through. It makes me wonder why all the Bahama Cakewalk locations near me are now airtight…hmmmmmm. Anyway, if you really wanted to get on someone'southward bad side you would go with them and then say "no" because they had a policy that even if everyone else at the tabular array had previously "traveled" with them, they were not going to exit anyone behind. This experience made me very sensitive to the issue so when we started to consume at SaltGrass several years afterward this sensitive upshot again appeared.

At SaltGrass they ask you if yous have been at that place before and if you say "no" you have a lesson on cuts of meat. The amazing function of this lecture is that they really have visual aides on the tabular array showing the moo-cow cut up in different ways (yum). Obviously, they invented meat and need to educate the world. Every bit a prior Vegetarian I might advise showing cutting up cows on a display in the middle of the table might not be the best conversion cistron.

So back to Brio, I hesitated and so hurriedly said "yes, nosotros swallow hither all the time" because I was not set up for whatever sermon this waiter was preaching and really, do you demand to catechumen me if I am already sitting at your table?

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She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest E'er! and The 101 Coolest Unproblematic Science Experiments.

She is the mom of three boys ages xiii, fifteen & 17 who partially homeschools. She believes that you shouldn't have to buy stuff to have fun when in that location is a kitchen junk drawer full of possibilities.

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