Word: frisco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customers walk out of Del Frisco's Steak House in New Orleans without leaving a tip, none of the waiters even raise an eyebrow. Nor do they at Cafe Provencal in Evanston, Ill., or Michael's in Santa Monica, Calif. Tipping is no longer expected at these establishments, but that does not mean the service is free. They are among a small but growing number of U.S. restaurants that are replacing the tipping system with a service charge, typically...
...waiters receive a minimum of $2.01 an hour plus their individual gratuities. A service charge, by contrast, is collected as | part of restaurant revenue and is then paid out to waiters on an hourly basis or under an incentive plan based on how much food they sell. At Del Frisco's in New Orleans, waiters receive $8 an hour or 10% of weekly total sales, whichever is greater...
Wrongheadedness and bizarre tales abounded. Warner Bros. had filmed The Maltese Falcon twice before Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train...
...exhilarating, it's exhausting. Big Trouble in Little China describes itself as a "mystical action-adventure-comedy-kung-f u- monster-ghost story." It is plenty savvy in deploying plot devices from a dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones...
...rehearsal pianist and song plugger before publishing his first hits in the 1920s. During the '30s and '40s he wrote the scores for a string of movie musicals, winning Academy Awards for Lullaby of Broadway (from Gold Diggers of 1935); You'II Never Know (Hello Frisco, Hello, 1943); and On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe (from The Harvey Girls, 1946). A quiet, amiable man whose talent brought him fortune but not fame, he once said: "I lack charisma. Not even my best friends have heard...