Diner Dash

Since it can sometimes feel like the only two entertainment options available in Stamford are eating and drinking I’d like to see the town get those down pat. I'm proposing all locale eateries force their staff to sit down at a computer and play 24 consecutive hours of Diner Dash. If you’re not familiar, Diner Dash is the charming tale of Flo, a stockbroker who quits her job to run a diner… told thru an online casual game. It’s the modern equivalent of the arcade classic Burgertime, only with turning tables as the goal instead avoiding anthropomorphic pickles & eggs as you assemble massive burgers by stomping each element loose from stacked platforms.

In any case, Diner Dash covers off on all the simple basics many Stamford restaurants can’t grasp.

1. Seat your customers.
2. Give them a menu. Even if the place is busy this takes all of 5 seconds and keeps customers calm until you can get to them.
3. Take a drink order. Again, place could be busy and waitress can’t give you full attention yet, but I’m enjoying a delicious beverage and I’m happy.
4. Bring drinks/ Take the main order
5. Bring food. As ordered is often appreciated.
6. Bring bill.

Now no one expects the Mall restaurants to pull these steps off, with some of those establishments you’re lucky if they don’t take a dump on your plate and hit you with it. You’d be surprised though how many of the local stalwarts struggle with the basics as well.