Molly
Murphy's Food & Kitchen Stories
There was an unforgettably dorky Mr. Spock.
The Spock ears weren’t right.
We worked with all Cambodians in the kitchen. None of them spoke
English.
Mr. Spock seemed to struggle
all night keeping the salad car refilled with salad and dressing. Then
while running back to the walk-in refrigerator he slipped with two 5
gallon buckets of dressing in each hand. It was like everything went
into slow motion. The two buckets of dressing went up in the air and
landed all over him.
Then out of nowhere a Cambodian said in
English “Beam him up Scotty!” It was truly
funny. -Suzanne Torvi
I
started with a guy named Glen Harvey,
we later became roommates (not that way) and he was funny and crazy as
well. I saw him one night fixing some lady's baked potato
and throwing stuff on it, of course the further you threw it
the
better,
and he lobs a spoon full of butter on her fur coat that's sitting
on
the back of her chair.
No one sees where it lands and he just keeps
talking and wiping butter off her coat. She had a surprise
when she got home, I'll bet her dog loved that coat.
- Mack Harris
Steve
Kabala (the GM) and I sat back in his office one night listening to
Bethany Nazarene College (my school) play in the basketball finals on
the radio (BNC ALWAYS had this crazy incredible team - NAIA
division).
We
sat back there for about an hour or two one night,
and I had other people doing my tables, and I'd peek out once every
thirty minutes or so. We're really enjoying this game, and
then Steve just walks out to the freezer and gets about half a
cheesecake, and we sat there and pounded it down
together............just like nothing else was going on in the world.
He
had a Rubik's cube we were dealing with also, and that was brand new at
the time. - Darren
As a cocktail waitress we would be starving by 10pm on Saturday nights.
So we would set up an empty table in the lounge with a couple of
glasses of water or old drinks, to make it look like the customers were
dancing. We would order eggrolls for the imagery customers and
intercept it from the runner. Then we would take it back to the back
bar, by the trash can and literally shovel it in our
mouths.
- Suzanne Torvi
You
remember the tradition of "breaking bread"?
One night Weldon had a table of girls on the terrace and we decided to
play a
little trick on him. It was known that sometimes the waiters would put
the
bread down by their groin and have the girls break the bread from
there. (If
you thought they would take that in fun) So we took a loaf of
bread and
burnt it completely black, rolled it up, and then we told Weldon to
break bread
with the girls like that. He had no idea what he was in for.
Practically all of
us were hiding and watching somewhere in the restaurant. The look of
horror on
Weldon's face when he had that down by his groin, rolled that cloth
napkin
back, and that big black thing came poking out was nothing less than
hysterical! We laughed for hours about that.
- Jeff Eason