Hello. It's me Andy Richter. This is the Andy Richter Collins show and it's my first live episode of this thing

Here on Conan O'Brien radio. Very excited. I feel like a big grown-up radio man or I guess a radio boy more like it and I have such I'm so lucky to have such a great guest here with me today a great guest host.

Mr Phil Rosenthal is here and because of this this scam he's got running where he goes places and people feed him.

We are going to be talking today about a restaurant and service industry stories

whether they you were a, whether you were a waiter,

you work in the back, you're a host, whatever, we want to hear that kind of dirt.

Did you ever work in a restaurant?

I did.

I was a waiter for a number of years.

Yeah, during college and then a little bit after too.

Yeah. And I was, you know, that's pretty good. But it's an awful job. I tried

bartending yeah I wasn't very good I managed a deli though for a year on the

upper east side Manhattan it's still there the Delhi, PJ Bernstein's.

Wow. And, wow, that was fun.

How old were you?

21.

Oh yeah, that's, see, that's what I was, I figured you were probably young.

Yeah. And, you know, did old Delhi slicers listen to you like they did it was like my deli from three to

11 wow because the owner I'd come in at three and the owner had me pour him a drink and he got a little shica as they say and then would go home and it was

my deli. Wow. I gained 15 pounds. Oh wow yeah yeah just nothing, corn beef and, and, and, and, and the upper east side, we had celebrities come in.

We had Howard Cosell.

Wow.

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