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EXCELLENT! Thanks for posting, now I have a new weekender to plan!

I usually give leave my Diet Pepsi on the shelf every Lent, but come Easter morning, the first thing after my last Mass is to suck all the last drop out of that 2L bottle. I'm so thankful my addiction isn't something worse, but man...an addiction is an addiction. When we bought our restaurant the first thing that was hooked up was, yup...the Pepsi fountain. sad.

Every morning we make fresh dough, bake off fresh bread & rolls, and cook off sheets of bacon in the oven...it's got to be the bacon!

All of our salads are served "DOTS"...it's one way we control costs and the customer has the option of how much is enough. The simple request of "on the side please" should have been a non-issue.

Actually, we're pretty liberal in honoring our requests, in fact when we recognize a trend on a given dish it's a clue perhaps we've misjudged the plate. Repeated requests for the same thing have led to "new" menu items!

Big swing through Texas for the Whatta-Burgers, then up through California to put the In N' Out mystic to rest once and for all.

@digital...we have several folks that will regularly order our "Mama Meata" 5-meat pie and swap the red sauce for our alfredo base. it's actually become my own preferred pizza lately and I have the whole kitchen to pick from. Our best selling pies use no red sauce but rather a ranch dressing, a BBQ, or a simple olive oil and garlic base.

Pretty much my reaction as well. We gave them a couple of visits to make sure it wasn't just a bad day....sorry nope.

We are going to be forced to make a tough decision at our restaurant here in this next two weeks. Raise our prices on salads and veggie laden items, or simply temporarily drop salads from our menu and cease using tomatoes on sandwiches etc.

I'll be in disagreement with the article's findings that we've seen the highs on produce pricing. A bushel of green peppers (chopper grade) has moved from the mid-$20's to near $40 in the last two weeks. Ripe XL tomatoes have skyrocketed from $18.00 a bushel to an obscene $59.00 this week!

The plus, if there is one, is I can now better "afford" to purchase from a local hothouse who previously, despite my desire to purchase as local as I may was off-limits at $60+ for the same bushel of tomatoes.

I've done the saltine "toffee"this year but THIS one with the pretzel is a must try now too! And, uh..."It will keep for two or three weeks...."? Really? Why? :^)

Sofie and Matilda are hardly "...extreme bomber beers...", you must have them confused with something else. These are both quite smooth and approachable Belgians. We serve both in our Pub to beer drinkers of every stripe...and many who thought they weren't beer drinkers at all.

We tasted tested a BUNCH of different root beer offerings in our area when searching for the best for our new Pub. Fitz out of STL led the pack by far, but sadly...not distributed here. Barq's though? Really? Not so much.

No Goose Island? No Care.

Each and every server in our restaurant has full authority to "make it right", with the understanding that the kitchen manager is made aware of the situation. I've been to places where I didn't want to make a scene over a foodflub, only to mentally mark it off my list of places to dine when the server failed to notify management of the situation so they could attempt to make amends.

As for plastic, or anything in our food...unquestionably removed from the bill, a suitable replacement offered, in short we do whatever it takes. Period.