Restaurant Week Survival Kit Part One

Well it's that time of the year again. Time for restaurant patrons everywhere to venture out into the world of fine foods to sample the offerings of countless DFW restaurants at a very affordable price. As a server it is CRAZY NUTS BUSY! It's an oasis of boom in an otherwise boomless time of year.

But with the crazy busy comes exhaustion, headaches, sleeplessness, soreness and, um,.. uh... chafing. We've all suffered from at least one of these restaurant week ailments and I happen to have just what you need to get through relatively unscathed.

So, without further lead in, I present to you my Restaurant Week Survival Kit

Your feet will be sore. Very sore. You will be in excruciating pain and you are going to go back the next day and do it again. For several weeks. The one part of your body you're going to need to take care of more than anything else is your feet and the way I'm doing it is with PanAway. (You'll hear this a lot.)

A couple of drops mixed with some olive oil and a solid foot massage at the end of a long shift and you'll be ready to do it again the next day.

This same mixture works well for... um.. the other pain that comes with a solid day of working on your feet. Swamp somethingorother. While the foot pain is the most important to upkeep THIS bugger is the most embarrassingly painful. Once again, though, some PanAway, a couple of drops of olive oil and a massage before bedtime and the morning will bring a freshness previously unknown to restaurant week waiters.

One oil in part one to deal with the physical pains of the week, join my later this weekend as I let you in on the few oils in my arsenal that I'm going to use to get me through the stress, sleeplessness and the lack of energy that comes at the end of restaurant week.