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Anyone ever see the movie Waiting?,,,,
Posted on 7/29/08 at 10:01 pm
Posted on 7/29/08 at 10:01 pm
It is a silly movie about a fictional chain restaurant and the employees that work there.
95% of the movie is filmed in what is typically a low end chain place and it is funny as all hell for those with a love for mindless humor. I think the Bennigans in Kenner, La was where it was filmed.
I have a weird sense of humor so I liked the flick quite a bit.
95% of the movie is filmed in what is typically a low end chain place and it is funny as all hell for those with a love for mindless humor. I think the Bennigans in Kenner, La was where it was filmed.
I have a weird sense of humor so I liked the flick quite a bit.
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Posted on 7/29/08 at 10:05 pm to footballislife
If you've worked in a restaurant, the movie is pretty spot on.
Posted on 7/29/08 at 10:37 pm to lsutiger_08
It was certainly filmed @ Bennigans in Kenner/Metairie right in front of Home Depot on Vets. My cousin somehow hung out with that cast the whole time they were filming. I had a chance to go meet them all but bitched out and never went.
Posted on 7/29/08 at 10:44 pm to lsutiger_08
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If you've worked in a restaurant, the movie is pretty spot on.
Posted on 7/29/08 at 10:46 pm to Opie
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If you've worked in a restaurant, the movie is pretty spot on.
Yes. I am interested here how many people have waited tables and done the following:
1) played the get someone to look at your package game.
2) rubbed their package and put it in the food
Posted on 7/29/08 at 10:55 pm to jwall3
we never rubbed a package on food but the movie is similar to the industry. and its funny
Posted on 7/29/08 at 11:09 pm to jwall3
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jwall3
It's not really the specific things they did that are spot on, but more the attitude and tone of interaction. I've had many of the same conversations/arguments at the restaurant, and you do hang out with pretty much the same people every night.
And, there is always some type of game being played at a restaurant. It just changes a lot.
Posted on 7/29/08 at 11:29 pm to lsutiger_08
"We get it you're the cool guy at Shennanigans WOOO!!! That's like being the smartest kid with Down Syndrome" 
Posted on 7/30/08 at 8:55 am to lsutiger575
I agree. I got a few good laughs watching it. I bartended for a couple of years in college, mostly at a restaurant. It was a constant party every night and everyone was hooking up with each other. We never played any other those games, but practical jokes were the norm.
Posted on 7/30/08 at 9:41 am to jwall3
Yeah, we had a guy get fired at the restaurant I worked out for hanging his balls out his pants while working the expo line in the kitchen - he had his apron over it and would pick up the apron and flash people, he did it once as the manager walked in and he had to fire him.
I liked the movie, it was right on with typical stuff we did/dealt with.
I liked the movie, it was right on with typical stuff we did/dealt with.
Posted on 7/30/08 at 12:04 pm to foreverLSU
The next person to say the word Shennanigans...............
Posted on 7/30/08 at 12:09 pm to TheEye
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The next person to say the word Shennanigans...............
hey Farva whats that new restaurant you've been raving about?
Posted on 7/30/08 at 12:30 pm to lsutiger575
oh you mean Shenanigans?
Posted on 7/30/08 at 12:48 pm to Permus42
All the stuff with the balls was pretty stupid, but the different types of customers were perfect. The redneck, the foreigners, the teenagers, the horny guys, and my favorite, the "beotch". I swear I have waited on that skank hundreds of times.
Posted on 7/30/08 at 1:03 pm to EMILIO
they left out one category of people, but i am sure they had to
Posted on 7/30/08 at 1:12 pm to EMILIO
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All the stuff with the balls was pretty stupid, but the different types of customers were perfect. The redneck, the foreigners, the teenagers, the horny guys, and my favorite, the "beotch". I swear I have waited on that skank hundreds of times.
I could have never been a waiter at a restaurant as I am quite sure I would have tried to kill the redneck. That type seems to be about half of what was in Bennigans last time I ate there.
As far as the back of the house stuff goes, I would love to know of the crazy stuff that goes on in the kitchens and such, especially with the low end, ie. dishwasher/fry cook types.
Emeril's had tried at one time to make all their employees go through a drug screening process and I heard they couldn't get enough employees to apply after that.
I am guessing that the dump restaurants in around N.O. probably have some pretty crazy assed people working there.
Posted on 7/30/08 at 1:20 pm to footballislife
Ever read the book Kitchen Confidential? Pretty much all line cooks according to Bordain are on probabtion or going to be on probation soon..
Posted on 7/30/08 at 1:24 pm to footballislife
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Emeril's had tried at one time to make all their employees go through a drug screening process and I heard they couldn't get enough employees to apply after that.
a restaraunt that drug tests is a restaraunt with no employees
Posted on 7/30/08 at 2:43 pm to Towelie
One of the cooks at a restuarnat I worked at had a bullet fall out of his leg one day. Kitchen staff are made up of some crazy frickers for sure. Most of the cooks I know have at least been charged with possesion.
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