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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2008 – The Afghan kitchen opened the sailor’s eyes and the smoke made them sting. Even fans that run 24 hours a day can’t keep up with the smoke from a dozen or more wood-burning stoves at the new Afghan National Army dining facility here. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class David Crabb, of Navy Embedded Training Team 3-205th Garrison, makes a suggestion to Abdul Sami, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the Afghan National Army’s Shorabak Garrison dining facility. Crabb advises Sami and other Afghan kitchen staff on sanitation, hygiene and proper food preparation...

VALDOSTA, Ga., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. today celebrates the grand opening of the fifth store to open under the Little Caesars Veterans Program as U.S. military veteran and Little Caesars franchisee Patricia Evans opens her doors for business at 1650 F Baytree Road in Valdosta, Georgia. "The Little Caesars Veterans Program has provided me the opportunity to transition to a new career as my family and I begin the next chapter in our lives," said Evans. "I am proud to be the first woman to open a store under this program, and I'm excited to be...

Queen City Cigarettes & Candy, a Clinton Street warehouse owned by food broker Mohamed T. Albanna, is one element of investigators' picture of a money-transmitting business that sent large sums to Yemen. A leader of Lackawanna's Yemeni-American community and two other men were in custody today on charges they operated an illegal money-transmitting business that sent funds from Western New York to Yemen. Mohamed T. Albanna, vice president of the American Muslim Council of Western New York and a frequent spokesman for the defendants known as the "Lackawanna Six," appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott on Tuesday after...

After finishing dinner at a Connecticut restaurant, two diners got more than a butter mint when a waiter, apparently miffed by a $2 to $3 tip left on a $50 check, attacked them with a knife. They only suffered minor injuries, but no doubt tipped much better after that. While violent cases of waiter rage are rare, the 1989 incident points to waiters' sticky reliance on tips for income. In some states, restaurants are only legally required to pay as little as $2 or $3 an hour. So if a server earns $30 in tips on a bad night, he...

The freedoms we experience in America are so plentiful that they even include preserving the choice of whether or not we should tip the people who wait on us. When we go out to eat, we expect good service in order to have a good meal; and if we receive that good service, we provide a tip to show our appreciation. If we don’t get that service, and we have to wait more that 10 minutes for a refill, we can choose not to tip, thereby showing our disapproval with that particular waiter.

U.S. Army Spc. Norchell Samuel (left) reviews an order with a member of Normandy Dining Facility in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, May 25, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lee Elder U.S. Army Spc. Norchell Samuel Soldier Helps Feed Troops in Iraq By Spc. Lee Elder 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment MUQDADIYAH, Iraq, June 6, 2006 — She’s a small lady with big dreams. U.S. Army Spc. Norchell Samuel, a cook with D Company, 426 Forward Support Company, 3rd Battalion 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, Task Force Band of Brothers, is one of the busiest people at Forward Operating Base Normandy...

Waiter, there's a service charge on my soup. Customers at a high-end Manhattan restaurant soon will notice an extra expense when they get their bill, and not only for their soup course. Beginning Thursday, chef Thomas Keller will charge customers a 20 percent service fee at Per Se, his year-old outpost in the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, where the views of Central Park are nearly as breathtaking as the prices.

Here is more on the story being broken by SSAF on its website and here on FReeRepublic. ENTIRE STORY WITH PICTURES HERE. Airport workers, vendors and suppliers have to be checked just as vigorously as passengers. The same rules must apply, but they don’t! The companies that supply food and snacks for all airlines have a very open door policy and are charged to comply with background and security checks of personnel and vehicles that have open access to the airfield. In checking the off airport offices and warehouses of these food supply companies it has come to SSAF’s attention...