The Kid (An Introduction)
Hey kid, come into the broom clos-er I mean office. Christ, Dave said you'd be skinny but look at ya! That dress shirt hands off ya like you're a coat rack. Hey now! Don't walk off! Ol' Mike is just giving ya a hard time! Take a seat, mind the mop! It falls over sometimes! Lets see what we have here...fry cook for 2 weeks? Dave said you had experience but this aint much kid. I get it, Mike couldn't really hack it either. Too many rules and regulations! Clean uniforms and no improv! Mike likes to screw around a bit. That's why he bought this place, fixed it up nice and started slingin hash and eggs. We do stuff real old school! Real salt of the Earth stuff, occasional specials, hashbrowns, salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, but no saffron for us! Something will occasionally catch my eye and we'll give it a go, that's just how we do stuff there: Home style cooking with a bit of a twist. People like familiarity kid, to some degree they thrive on it, it aint a bad thing. I'm not saying stay at home with your TV dinners watchin Dr. Who all night, but make sure to take some time for yourself to make sure ya can recover and have a place to call home. That's what we try to do here kid, give people a taste of home and mix it up a bit. That's the shit Mike things about from time to time.....what? Oh yeah! Show up at 7 sharp! Just don't come in smelling like booze and lay off the grass while you're here. Anyway, Ol' Mike will have you slingin hash in no time! And for Crissake kid! Lose the tie, this aint the damn opera! Blue jeans, a t shirt and non skid shoes is fine! See ya tomorrow kid, you're going to do great!
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The Mike Lectures
HumorA series of humorous, insightful and one sided rants by a middle aged chef named Mike at a small cafe. Mike's foil is a mostly quiet young man (around 21) known simply as "the kid" who is experiencing growing pains in the harsh light of modern soci...
