Not So Over Easy

I flew back to Philadelphia to visit an injured relative. While there, my wife and I went to a “cafe” for breakfast. It was a coffee/tea place with a kitschy menu and minimalist. There was over-easy egg on toast.

Me: “Can I have the eggs sunny side up?”

Waitstaff: “We don’t do that.”

After reading these posts for the last four years about demanding a manager, I was nervous to ask for the manager, not wanting to be that customer, but I asked for one.

Manager: “The reason we don’t sell sunny-side eggs is that the cooks are ONLY trained to do over-easy eggs.”

Me: “Why don’t you show anyone how?”

Manager: “That was the way they were doing it when I got here.”

So simple, so easy, and nobody thought to explain.