SETTING: Khi Mao Kitchen
SCENE: Casual Thai FSR
LOCATION: Strip-mall, Suburbs
DAY: Tuesday
TIME: Morning
FOH STAFF: OFF GUESTS: Linda, Stanley
************The restaurant is closed. Lights are off, window shades are drawn, chairs are stacked on top of tables, and nobody is inside. An older couple parks in front of the restaurant, but only Stanley gets out pushing on the pull handle of the locked restaurant door.
Linda (L): It's a pull, not a push, STANLEY! Idiot.
{Linda and Stanley proceed to yell at each other back and forth from the locked door and parked car. Stanley peers in through the glass door with cupped hands.}
Stanley (S): I don't see anyone.
L: WHAT?
S: SEE! SEE! I DON’T SEE ANYONE! Nobody’s inside.
{Stanley walks around the side of the building and then back to pull on the locked front door a second time before retreating to Linda's open car window.}
L: That's new.
S: Did you wanna try calling?
L: What do you think I'm doing? It's ringing.
S: Didn’t we eat here a couple weeks ago? I swear it was Tuesday.
L: Tuesday. Lunch. With Shirley. Shirly and her daughter Diane…Dina or Dinny. Whatever she calls herself these days.
S: The quirky kid
L: To put it nicely. She’s an odd duck that one. It just keeps ringing. No answer.keyboard_arrow_down
Linda puts the phone to her ear one last time shaking her head with an exasperated sigh.
S: Guess we'll take our business elsewhere.
{Stanley gets into the driver's seat.}
S: The sign says closed.
L: I'm online…and it says they're open.
S: Can you leave a review? Should let em know at least. Can’t be the only customers turned away. Maybe message them on Facebook. Or Instagram it.
L: Instagram, yup. I’ll leave one there too. Should we just go to Paneras? We know they'll be open.
S: Panera’s it is. Here's the thing. Nobody wants to work anymore. Earn an honest dollar.
{The older couple drive off as Stanley monologues about worker’s of yesteryear and Linda types out a negative Google review and multiple messages on social media in all caps.}Episode Guide
