> But I do think everyone should work at a restaurant at least once in their life. It's a customer-service learning experience and gives you an appreciation for

> But I do think everyone should work at a restaurant at least once in their life. It's a customer-service learning experience and gives you an appreciation for the staff when you patronize restaurants later. Very much agreed - I worked in the kitchen of a family run Chinese restaurant during my junior and senior years of high school. Did everything from taking orders, to chopping tons of cabbage, mopping up a drunk assholes puke to de-veining shrimp. All at the same time! J/K ;) Although it sucked some of the time, looking back at it, I would have done it all over again. Learned a lot (I can cook Chinese and can put together a great dinner very quick), made long lasting relationships (the same family still owns the restaurant and I stop by whenever I visit my parents) and the customer service aspects have been ingrained in me since.