Maître d’s have a lot of great stories, and sometimes we get to meet really interesting people while just doing our jobs.  In honor of ELECTION WEEK we’re offering up a wholly positive, but still dishy behind-the-scenes story of what happened when President and Mrs. Obama came to dinner at...

Welcome to the 2nd “We’re Booked” episode of Maître  d’ Diaries, a front of the house restaurant industry podcast. On our “We’re Booked” episodes we chat with authors who write about restaurants and restaurant life, and the specialty book sellers who collect and curate the books we long to...

Thanks for joining us at Maître d’ Diaries, and welcome to our first “That’s an Issue!” episode.  At Maître d’ Diaries we spend a lot of time thinking about the management of dining room operations and how we could do it better. While we are well past Covid–knock on wood–our industry is still...