Side Work Podcast

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Ep. 23 "Doggie Bag of Bonus Content Pt. II" May 31, 2019

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We can't believe we are well over twenty episodes strong with more on the way and great guests coming up! Let's celebrate the past ten or so episodes with off the wall, mostly off topic moments with a side of service industry! Reappearing in this episode is Eliot Glazer, Jackie Zebrowski, Jordan Carlos and Jen Kirkman. Here's a tip: If you enjoy Side Work, please subscribe, smash that 5-star icon and write a little review!

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Ep. 22 "Hot Food, Cold Service" May 24, 2019

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Today we explore the comforting existence of American diners. We discuss the origins of a "diner car" morphing into the long, compact establishments we love to stumble into after a night out and why diner waitresses are cut from a different cloth. Diners remain a meeting place for people of all stripes and are refreshingly unlike modern restaurants and dammit they intend to keep it that way. Then, Brooke's dad, a retired police officer calls in to fondly remember midnight shifts spent at The Nugget drinking free coffee and being treated to off-menu items while keeping the local riffraff in line.

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Ep. 21 "Restaurant Myths, Urban Legends, and Mike Burns" May 17, 2019

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When you send back food do the waiter and chef both spit on it? Is it safe to go out for seafood on Mondays? Do all servers hate all customers? We confirm, confess, and deny to the best of our knowledge! Lots of "ewwwww" this week with Eliot Glazer sitting in for Kyle, who once again briefly died. Then, potato chip connoisseur, former waiter and friend Mike Burns drops by to tell us how he learned to party like a gay man thanks to his restaurant job.

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Ep. 20 "Quiche. Respect. Microdosing." May 10, 2019

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Mother's Day is upon us and what do we say to the God of Death? "Not today". Servers, steel yourselves for the busiest day of the year when dysfunctional families descend upon you to feast, fight and celebrate mommy dearest. It's a doozy of a service day where statistically your restaurant is going to run out of at least fourteen items that you promised to customers, that customer being a mother pushed to the brink. The girls go for it and talk about the dark origins of this holiday, "Mom-mosas", and work out their own personal mommy issues.

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Ep. 19 "Food allergies, the waiter whisperer, and Giulia Rozzi" May 03, 2019

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In today's episode we sound off about customers with dietary particulars from being vegan, to the dreaded over-modifier. We break down the growing trend of people claiming "allergy" to get what they want and how it's very stressful for a kitchen and can cheapen the safety of people with actual deadly allergies. We decide that y'all are crazy and should maybe just stay home. Then, our favorite friend and comedian Giulia Rozzi drops by the podcast to recall her days as a server but mostly talks about all the restaurant workers she hooked up with on the Jersey Shore.

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Ep. 18 "Go Brunch Yourself with Eliot Glazer" Apr 26, 2019

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Brunch: reviled and feared by servers and chefs alike, this meal for amateurs is only growing more unstoppable each year. The gals from Side Work break down why it's the worst shift and why you're worse off for eating it. If hearing "bottomless mimosas" is triggering, be warned as this episode contains graphic terms like "hollandaise", "bloody bar" and "Sunday funday". We then welcome Eliot Glazer into the pod den to tell us about waiting tables at crab boils in Long Island and the carnage that ensued. As a special treat, we've also included the new single "Brunchin'" by Brooke Van Poppelen and Julian Velard off of their new comedy & music EP Comfort Zone that dropped today!

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Ep. 17 "Dinner and a Show with Josh Cheney" Apr 19, 2019

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In this episode we are a house divided: dinner theater lovers and ... dinner theater haters. We explore all the ways in which food is definitely the understudy and performance is the star, from 1950's diners and insult themed restaurants, to Medieval Times and the Magic Castle. We then talk with Josh Cheney about being a server/ performer at now defunct back talk restaurant Ed Debevic's -where you paid for a side of "shove it" with your french fries.

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Ep. 16 "Kids Menu, Binaural Beats, and Jen Kirkman" Apr 12, 2019

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Today we talk kids: the "good", the bad, and the very bad scenarios servers find themselves in waiting on children. We throw it back and talk about our experiences going out to eat as wee little rug rats then move into present day where it seems entitled little tots and clueless parents are the name of the game. It's a tough topic so we've got advice for servers and parents on how to make it a tolerable experience for all parties and not end up having the owner banish your family to a life dining at Denny's only. After that, the fabulous and fearless Jen Kirkman stops into the podcast to dish on the strange, classist habits of elite country club members she had to wait on in Beverly Hills and more!

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Ep. 15 "Sober Curious, Nacho Mama's and Jordan Carlos" Apr 05, 2019

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Our history of women in the service industry continues as we explore the beautiful world of gender and race discrimination within the job. In short: it was a woman's job, then it wasn't, then it was again while men were at war, then men came back and kicked us out of the job, then it was our job again after some legislation passed, but then we were pushed out of fine dining and potential to earn good money. And where that left POC is an entirely different struggle that still needs a lot of correcting. Proud that this episode arrives right on the heels of Equal Pay Day.

Then our dear friend and amazing comedian and writer Jordan Carlos, host of WNYC's "Adulting" podcast sits down with us to talk about the wild streets of Glendale as well as his time bussing tables and being the "Do Boy" at a Manhattan restaurant. There's a great rat story, too.

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Ep. 14 "Harvey Girls and Renee Gauthier" Mar 29, 2019

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We are back with some more hungover history of women and their role in the service industry in America. Kyle's ghost makes some appearances throughout the episode and we talk about The Harvey Girls who are pivotal to women becoming self-sufficient wage earners in the West! Then our girl Renee Gauthier, a floor captain, top server, team manager and BOSS BITCH when it came to waiting tables and bartending drops by to enlighten us with her competitive edge which made her shine on the job.

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