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Does waiting tables make one a better trial lawyer?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  The closest I came to waiting tables was working as a pantry assistant in the kitchen of my old summer camp, making orange juice and bug juice with a garden hose and metal oar, moving food on hand trucks and flat trucks, shoving my hand in innumerable chickens to pull out the gizzard packets (in my pre-vegetarian days), and making sandwiches for the nighttime on duty staff.  I ran into many colorful kitchen characters. Some of them were pleasant, some the opposite, and most in between. I saw things that underlined why to think twice about eating in restaurants. For instance, when I mentioned to a kitchen supervisor with decades in the food service industry that I wasn't sure whether the chopped liver was still fresh enough for sandwiches for the late-night staff, he scooped his big bare unwashed finger into the yuckbowl, stuck it in his mouth as if it were chocolate, and proclaimed: "That will sharpen your pencil, but I have no one to write to!" In retrospect, I might have asked whether I was still within the state health code to make sandwiches from the now-fingerswirled yuck bowl...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 28, 2008 (boomark / email).