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Friday was not a personal best at work. I couldn't focus and by the time I clocked out I felt like I hadn't gotten anything done. *SIGH*
( But. Uh. On the way home I was sort of daydreaming (spacing off) and was all, I would love a bus driver/public transit AU. )
( But. Uh. On the way home I was sort of daydreaming (spacing off) and was all, I would love a bus driver/public transit AU. )
One day Brian storms into the diner all >:( because his doctor told him he had "worryingly high blood pressure" and until they can pinpoint the cause,, he's on a strict diet with a focus on low-sodium foods. (Brian knows exactly what the cause is, okay, it's not his sodium intake!) He's mad because now he can't eat his favorite foods anymore (he's going to anyway, even if it kills him!). Gerard and the others find out and tell him he has to stick to his diet and whatnot and Brian sighs because he knows they'll make his live (even more of) a living hell if he doesn't do what his doctor said, and resigns himself to bland, tasteless food. >:( *SIGH*
Spencer and Suarez take his reaction as a personal challenge to make tasty, delicious foods that won't kill Brian. And, uh, anyone else with high blood pressure.
(And, oh! Suarez was some hotshot gourmet chef at a highly rated restaurant but the stress was making him miserable - he was starting to hate his job - and he was walking by the diner and saw Brian fussing with the sign outside before the place was even close to being presentable enough to open. He went over and started talking and somehow or other Suarez found himself in the kitchen with a bag of groceries they bought on the spur of the moment making a few of his signature dishes and Brian offered him a job on the spot with no guarantee he'd even have a steady paycheck until the place got on its feet or that the diner would even make it past the first six months. (Two years later and Suarez isn't making the money he used to, but now he runs his own kitchen, Brian trusts him with whatever needs doing, and Spencer is a godsend.)
Even though the diner's not much to look at from the outside (it looks like any other greasy spoon diner), Suarez refuses to churn out run-of-the-the mill fare. They have traditional diner food, along with items that people who come in might not expect to see in a place like theirs. Business isn't booming, but they have regulars and they owe a lot to word-of-mouth recommendations, as well as a few favorable reviews in the newspapers. They're one of the better kept secrets of the city, their regulars careful who they tell about the diner because they don't want snooty people coming in and taking over.
Getting Spencer on the diner's staff was a bit of extremely good luck. fluke, actually. Just a college kid stopping by for something to eat in between studying for finals and his crappy part-time job, and he might have said something disparaging about the quality of his food a little too loudly. (Suarez was training some other guy in the kitchen who wasn't working out so well, at the time.) Suarez, of course, comes out and tells Spencer he's welcome to see if he can do better (Suarez was having a bad day) and Spencer, of course, takes him up on it (Spencer was sleep-deprived, and also having a bad day). Spencer did, in fact, do better - so much so that Suarez told Brian he'd have to be a grade-A moron not to hire Spencer on, and Brian was just glad Suarez found someone he agreed right then and there. Spencer's not quite the culinary master Suarez is, but he's learning. Brian doesn't know whether to cry or hug him when he finds out Spencer's going after a business degree. (He's really the only one Brian trusts to help him with the books and not make a huge mess of them.)
Ahaha. Gerard so would! He'd think it was totally awesome! He's confused by people who refuse the coffee, and secretly wonders if they have souls. (Only those without would refuse something as wondrous as coffee.)
She totally does! She's a little spitfire (Ray says she gets it from her mother), and she has all the little boys staring at her with hearts in their eyes. Also, Gerard is the best uncle ever. He tells the best stories and always has crayons and paper to draw on for her and they hang her (their) art on the wall behind the counter.
The image of the Cab as pre-schoolers slays me. GABE. *_*
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Hey, Brian resents being called a freak!
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Gerard insists making food fun is the best way to get the picky eaters Steven has in his class to eat their veggies! (Also, it's fun.)
He does, but everyone knows the truth hurts. :D
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