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HOLD THAT TIGER! WITH RESTRAINTS! MU ENTERS FULMER CUP

Missouri enters the Fulmer Cup in glorious fashion with a third-degree assault charge leveled against running back Tony Temple and his girlfriend Kendra Power resulting from--and this is why they're going to get style points--a fight at a Bennigan's with a kitchen employee over a food order gone awry. (HT: The Wiz.)


This Monte Cristo is unacceptable, sir. Taste my vengeance!

You'll never believe this, but like many recovering English majors, we spent considerable time in the hospitality business. There are a few rules in the hospitality business, and they stand with the gravity and certainty of divine dictate etched into stone. They are:

1. Don't fuck with the kitchen crew, and...

2. Don't fuck with the kitchen crew.

Most of them have been to jail for an extended stay of at least two or three days. If not, they're punks, skaters, aspiring rappers/tattoo artists, UFC fighters in training, ex-Special Forces guys, women who would frighten Barbary pirates with their coarseness, meth addicts, African refugees who saw their Dad eaten by crazed Congolese militias, or drug dealers in the process of turning into one of the aforementioned identities. Whatever variety of badass they are, they have short tempers and work inside a sauna that smells like grease and garlic for 12 hours a day six days a week, and can make your life as a server a living, breathing hell if you piss them off as your orders mysteriously end up splatting on the floor or turn up cold and dead at the end of the line. We know this from experience, most notably a screaming match with a locally famous six and a half foot tall transsexual kitchen type in a Midtown Atlanta restaurant in 2001.

For one of them to come out of the back to confront these two over an order meant that badass kitchen person was having a very, very rough day to begin with, and likely wanted to beat someone's ass anyway. Temple complaining about someone else's botched order of chicken-stuffed nacho jalapeno potato-skin popper nuggets indicates a serious lack of sense, since having some experience with them, we assume they're all carrying knives or worse. The fact that the kitchen worker took on both Temple and his former softball-playing girlfriend only confirms our two rules of working in a restaurant.

But good for them fighting as a loving pair. The couple that boot-parties together, stays together. Take 2 Fulmer Cup points, Missouri, one for the assault charge, and one for getting into a fight over defrosted deep fried somethings.

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As a former short order cook and jail worker I thank you for giving us props. There have been people that I worked with in restaurants that I would not even fuck with.

by messed up mean hornet on Jun 14, 2006 11:02 AM EDT reply actions  

Wow, chicken stuffed jalapeno potato skin popper nuggets sounds really good.

The board shall be updated later this evening

by BIGMIKE on Jun 14, 2006 11:07 AM EDT reply actions  

Never go through the drive thru with someone that gives the order takes attitude, or makes rediculous requests.

Welcome to Wendy’s may I take your order?

Yeah, I would like the Big Bacon Classic Combo, hold the lettuce, add mayo, no ketchup, add mustard, with one extra pickle slice. And on my fries, can you leave them in the frier for an extra 30 seconds? Also, I would like the bun toasted a little more than normal. No soda please, I’ll just take a cup of water with one lemon slice, and also one lime slice. And you PEOPLE better not charge me for the drink or there will be hell to pay!

If I was the cook, your food is getting either spit on, dropped on the floor or even laced with a pube or two.

Words to live by.

Be nice to the d-thru folks, their job sucks and they know it. Try not to make their day worse.

by Rome on Jun 14, 2006 11:13 AM EDT reply actions  

I made the mistake of fuckin with the kitchen crew at a Capn D’s in Memphis several years ago…. seems they didn’t give a shit that my seafood platter had a side of fried roach. I found myself alone in the parking lot with 3 large sistas and 2 skinny bros encircling me. I did manage to take out one of the skinny bros before LaShanda cold cocked me from behind. Thank God my Chow was able to climb thru the half open window and scare them away. No shit… true story

by BamaHamr on Jun 14, 2006 11:16 AM EDT reply actions  

More evidence to back up our point. Better to have them on your side than on your back in the parking lot.

by Orson Swindle on Jun 14, 2006 11:31 AM EDT reply actions  

Something tells me this all started when Power refused to sing the Bennigan’s Anniversary Song for the kitchen worker. Aw nutsack.

(What, too archaic a South Park reference?)

by Kanka on Jun 14, 2006 11:52 AM EDT reply actions  

“A little floor spice makes everything nice”

Atleast he didn’t show him the bat wing or goat.

by rjm on Jun 14, 2006 12:05 PM EDT reply actions  

I don’t remember if he was VHT or not, but I saw Temple play several times in HS and he had some skillz. Would have thought that the pompus dickheads at Rockhurst High School would have taught him better. I tend to regard kitchen staff as if they are the ex-con in “Heat” that De Niro recruits to drive the getaway car for the bank heist, or his female equivalent.

by Phil K. on Jun 14, 2006 12:17 PM EDT reply actions  

Wow, what a great post for those of us that have worked in those themed bar & grill type restaurants. It’s all so true. Personally, I prefer Raisins and/or Shenanigan’s to Bennigan’s.

by Gob Bluth on Jun 14, 2006 12:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Hey Farva. Whats the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy sh** on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

Farva: You mean Shenanigans?

by Broom on Jun 14, 2006 12:32 PM EDT reply actions  

I’d love to wander into some restaurant and see employees going at it.

Just be careful not to lose an eye with all that “flair” flying around.

by GamecockTony on Jun 14, 2006 12:35 PM EDT reply actions  

The only thing to get mad about at Bennigan’s is when I get there at 7:01 and have to wait three hours to get two-for-ones.

by Nile Kinnick on Jun 14, 2006 12:42 PM EDT reply actions  

It would have been perfect had he told the cooks, “We run this place!”

by John on Jun 14, 2006 1:47 PM EDT reply actions  

… refused to sing the Bennigan’s Anniversary Song for the kitchen worker. Aw nutsack.

“Oh well, when I get a chipotle blue-cheese bacon burger at Bennigan’s, I’ll forget all about my dad…bein’ queer and my mom tryin’ to kill me. I’m gonna be okay!”

by AU03 on Jun 14, 2006 1:51 PM EDT reply actions  

“So if you like fried food and lotsa crazy crap on the walls, come on down to Moe’s Family Feedbag!”

by Panhandler on Jun 14, 2006 1:52 PM EDT reply actions  

I think you just described the entire kitchen staff at the restaurant in Athens where I worked. Well maybe minus the UFC fighters, who needs a ring to beat ass?

by Jonathan on Jun 14, 2006 2:02 PM EDT reply actions  

“In that case, I would advise against the lady having the clam chowder.”

by kleph on Jun 14, 2006 2:38 PM EDT reply actions  

“Butters’ Episode” is one of South Park’s all-time best – Fisting Firemen IX, appearances by O.J. and Gary Condit, and the crusty Yankee farmer who advises Butters that there’s “a latta histry da’n that rad”.

by Phil K. on Jun 14, 2006 3:56 PM EDT reply actions  

“Clean food”

by Anon.4 on Jun 14, 2006 5:48 PM EDT reply actions  

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