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Rather than the usual mid-December to mid-January break that CMU provides, I’ve been working 4 days a week for the last couple months, the schedule being Monday and Tuesday bartending, Wednesday and Saturday on the floor.
The service industry is definitely a demanding one. Nobody at the restaurant has really asked for time off, it seems [...]

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A man (who will remain anonymous and henceforth be referred to as Morgan Freeman) walks into the bar on Monday night.

Morgan Freeman, fairly well dressed and in control, orders whiskey, a bowl of steamed brown rice, asks for Tabasco on the side and eventually acquiesces to Sriracha. He drops a 20 on the bar and [...]

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The Post Gazette has finally reviewed Richard Chen Pittsburgh.
The staff was eagerly awaiting China Millman’s review, which came out at 12:00am Thanksgiving day. It’s a pretty good read (or maybe I’m biased because I work there), and certainly bodes well for the restaurant’s success in Pittsburgh. We were hoping for 3 1/2 stars as Ms. [...]

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I just got back home from working the bar at RC. Today was my first encounter with the unbelievably phallic and outright ridiculous mollusk known as the Geoduck (pronounced “gooey duck”).
One of our sous chefs had mentioned before shift that “the gooey ducks are in!” but I wasn’t quite sure what he was alluding to [...]

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I don’t like it. I don’t intend to slam the place, but I don’t understand how the Church Brew Works can put its name on consisently disappointing beer. Honestly, in my last 5 trips (and please, ignore the fact that I’m an idiot for going back so much) I haven’t once been satisfied with the [...]

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It’s gone!

And I’m not quite sure where it went. Walking through Squirrel Hill yesterday morning for a traditional Bagel Factory hangover breakfast, something looked a bit off at the Forbes & Shady intersection, but I couldn’t quite figure out what it was. Then it hit me.
“Boston Market is gone!”
“Huh?” Roommate Kyle and visiting friend Gaurav [...]

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The other day I was on a crowded bus, heading back from campus. As is normally the case on the post-4:30 trip home, the front was lined with people left and right. Bleak and rainy days make it worse, nobody wants to walk so the buses get even more packed. This was one of those [...]

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