Getting Started, Again

The fact that the restaurant is serving up a fail-sauce buffet does not obligate one to heap one's plate with it. One can always order off the menu.

I knew a person once who always made a point of ordering something not on the menu. Nothing stupid extravagant, just simple little things like "Is there a way I could get a BLT?" or "I'd like a grilled cheese". Having come up at least tangentially to the food service industry, this tendency would always piss me off - why in the world would you inc...