Diary of The Food Whore: It's So Much Fun!

It's So Much Fun!

October 30, 2006

I had the chance to sit down with some friends over coffee to discuss life, how busy we all are, and how excited we are that The Most Adored Food Holiday In All The Land is fast approaching.

(That would be Thanksgiving, people.)

So my friend Rita was sharing how her cousin has gotten into the catering business, and was wondering if she could give her cousin my phone number for advice. I could tell Rita had a sense of sarcasm about her, and I asked her what was up.

"Well, my cousin says she has a brilliant plan to be the best, most consumer friendly caterer ever."

"Oh do tell.", I responded.

"Well, her plan is to charge $2.00 per person, plus the cost of food."

"So she doesn't plan on making money?"

"Oh, no. She says she's going to make a lot of money, while saving all of her customers money."

"How in the ..."

"Wait... this is her plan. She will pass on the cost of food to the customer and charge them $2.00 per person for their time. She says that will be all profit for her because she won't need to pay taxes if they pay her cost. And she won't need to pay for her help."

At this point I started to giggle.

"OK humor me - why won't she need to pay for her help?"

"Well because she has so many great friends and she knows they will love to help her for nothing - because catering is so much fun! I mean - it's not hard work, making food for people. And how hard is it to wash a dish? Her friends will be thrilled to help her because it will be so much fun."

Rita could barely finish the last sentence before she fell into a fit of giggles. All of us at the table belly laughed until we cried.

Ahhhh Rita's cousin. Godspeed, sweetie.

Posted by Foodwhore at October 30, 2006 11:46 AM

Oh, to be young and inexperienced!

Posted by: Kat at October 30, 2006 01:48 PM

Oh.My.Lord.

Posted by: Carmen at October 30, 2006 02:46 PM

Wait a minute... Is Rita's cousin somehow related to the Bride from "Icy Embrace"?

(Sounds like maybe they come from the same naive world??)

Posted by: Tarable at October 30, 2006 02:47 PM

so, how naive were you when you started out? just curious... poor girl... yeah, my idea of a fun time is to spend my weekend nights preparing and cleaning up after a bunch of locusts... for free.

Posted by: Tonja at October 30, 2006 04:48 PM

I remember "helping out" a friend's mother who was catering a wedding reception where the only bathrooms were the porta-potties located outside the hall. Surprisingly there was a kitchen, herefore all the guests used the sink in the kitchen to wash their hands. In and out that went - nevermind that we were trying to prepare their damn food. The best part was the facial I received every time I took another round of CORN ON THE COB out of the big pot on the stove. Yes, the idiot bride served CORN ON THE COB at her reception. She also dressed her bridesmaids in peach prom dresses with the ever so lovely tan pantyhose, so the CORN ON THE COB shouldn't have been that big of a surprise. The only caveat to this story is that the friend's mother did actually pay me at the end of the night.

I think of this night any time I'm asked by a friend to help with a catering....and then I ask if CORN ON THE COB will be served.

Posted by: Kristin at October 30, 2006 08:58 PM

WHERE IS SHE LOCATED? I sooooooooo want to be her first customer! Trust me, the second customer won't have such a great experience.

Posted by: Kevin at October 31, 2006 09:36 AM

Too funny ;-)
Michael
http://www.mikeysgblog.com

Posted by: Michael Gannotti at October 31, 2006 10:05 AM

Oh to be a fly on the all at their first function.

Biggles

Posted by: Dr. Biggles at October 31, 2006 12:38 PM