3rd October 2008
Customer: Hi.
Palin: Hey, can I call you pookie?
Customer: You’re cute like a dumb poodle who does tricks, but no, you may not.
Palin: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you (wink).
Customer: How are the crab cakes?
Palin: I would like to tell you about the moose burger.
Customer: Actually, I’d like to order the crab cakes. The menu says they’re fresh, local, and I want to support local fishers. That’s the patriotic thing to do.
Palin: I’m all about the moose burger. I shot it myself, carved it up, and I’ll even cook it up for ya!
Customer: No thanks. I’ll take the crab cakes and a side salad with the Italian vinaigrette.
Palin: We have creamy ranch.
Customer: Fine.
Palin: Sir, here’s your moose burger, cooked rare.
Customer: But I explicitly ordered the crab cakes.
Palin: I’m still giving you the moose burger, because I know what customers want, so I’m going to correct you. And as a mom and a waitress, I may not be servin’ what’cha wanted, but I’m not using the menu. I’m giving customers what customers want, and that is what I am known for, though.
Customer: But that’s not what I ordered. How is it that you’re not listening to me?
Palin: I do take issue with some of the principle there with that redistribution of food principle that seems to be espoused by you. But when you talk about ordering crab cakes, you’re forgetting millions of moose hunters that aren’t going to fit into that category. So they’re going to be the ones losing out thus resulting in fewer jobs being created and less productivity.
Now you said recently that ordering crab cakes is patriotic. In the middle class of this restaurant which is where I and my family have been all of our lives, that’s not patriotic. Patriotic is saying, managers, you know, you’re not always the solution. In fact, too often you’re the problem so, managers, lessen the menu burden and on our families and get out of the way and let the private sector and our families grow and thrive and prosper. A menu formula that you’re proposing in addition to a side salad with Italian vinaigrette that you’re proposing is the backwards way of trying to grow our economy.
Customer: Actually, I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. You’re way out of line. I’d like to speak to the chef.
Palin: I beg to disagree with you, again, on whether you’re preference is for crab cakes. Here again, you can say what you want to say a month out before people are asked to vote on this, but we listened to the discussion.
I think tomorrow morning, the restaurant reviewers are going to start do the who said what at what time and we’ll have proof of some of this, but, again, the chef who knows how to cook a moose. Who’s been there and he’s faced challenges and he knows what evil is and knows what it takes to overcome the challenges here with our kitchen staff. He knows to learn from the mistakes and blunders we have seen in the woods hunting moose, especially. He will know how to implement the strategies, working with our cooks and listening to what they have to say, taking the politics out of these cooking issues. He’ll know how to cook a meal.
People aren’t looking for more of the same. They are looking for change. And the chef has been the consummate maverick in the kitchen over all these years.
Customer: If you’re talking about change, that’s not the kind of change I’m looking for. Just leave me alone and bring the check. Here’s my credit card.
Palin: Here’s your bill.
Customer: But that doesn’t add up. You’re actually giving me a credit on this bill, and that’s going to hurt the house.
Palin: I am because one thing that restaurant people do at this time, also, though, is let’s commit ourselves just every day restaurant people, Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the restaurant, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars. We need to make sure that we demand from managers strict oversight of those entities in charge of our investments and our savings and we need also to not get ourselves in debt. Let’s do what our parents told us before we probably even got that first credit card. Don’t live outside of our means. We need to make sure that as individuals we’re taking personal responsibility through all of this. It’s not the customers fault that the restaurant is hurting like it is, but we have an opportunity to learn a heck of a lot of good lessons through this and say never again will we be taken advantage of.
Customer: I really have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t know how you got here or how you keep your job.
Palin: Well, again, sir, I do want to thank you. This is such an honor for me. And I appreciate, too, getting to meet you, finally, also, and getting to talk with you. And I would like more opportunity for this. I like being able to answer these tough questions without the filter, even, of the experts kind of telling others what they’ve just heard. I’d rather be able to just speak to the customer like we just did. And it’s so important that the customer know of the choices that they have on the menu.
I want to assure you that the chef and I, we’re going to fight for customers. We’re going to fight for the middle-class, average, everyday restaurant family like mine. I’ve been there. I know what the hurts are. I know what the challenges are. And, thank God, I know what the joys are, too, of waitressing in this restaurant. We are so blessed. And I’ve always been proud to be in a restaurant. And so has the chef.
We have to fight for our menu choices. It was some famous guy we all know who said that menu choices are always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in restaurants, back in the day, when men and women were able to make their own menu choices.
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