Category Archives: Funny Story in the Office

Dreams of Restaurant Equipment

Signs you are spending too much time selling restaurant equipment: you dream about Hobart mixers & Baker’s Pride double stone deck pizza ovens, then a few days later you have ongoing dream about restaurant equipment financing and hiring new employees. Yes, this is my life. Obviously the Frog never sleeps and when it does it dreams of restaurant equipment.

Yes, earlier this week I had a very vivid dream about Hobart Mixers and Baker’s Pride double stone deck pizza ovens.  I thought to myself, “oy, this is bizarre, I’m focused on work too much.”  Then last night I dreamt about restaurant equipment financing, helping the Finance Manager pull off some big deals and expanding our credit and finance department.  Sadly I woke up refreshed from these dreams and ready to go to work even though it’s the weekend.

Years ago I had this great dream about Brad Pitt and I meeting up on a ship (that looked a lot like a mixture between the Titanic and a ship I crossed the English Channel on).  Brad would pass me and kiss me on the lips, it never went further than that and he never talked to me– thankfully because I’ve always thought him rather daft.

I do think this recent dream about restaurant equipment financing as more fulfilling.  And before all you yokels in the office tease me come Monday morning that I’m having hot dreams about the Finance Manager, let me deny it.  There was nothing steamy about the dream, it truly was all work related.

 

Kiwi Shaves itself

Awwww yeah. How you been? You look wonderful today. Have you done something with your hair? You look 25 years younger – like a teenager. Anyways, here’s your regularly scheduled break from the workday monotony. This is easily the best kiwi shaving himself photo I’ve ever seen.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Stormtrooper Eggs for the Win

I’m not a huge egg fan – no matter how they’re prepared they usually gross me out. What I can get behind, however, are eggs with stomrtrooper helmets drawn on them. The Force is strong with this one.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

We’re expanding…

I can’t tell you how we’re expanding now, but suffice it to say that it’s not my waistline this time!  Yup- look for big changes coming.  We’re expanding staff… lots of training going on and … well, I’ll let you know more as we’re going.

But for now I wanna tell you a funny story about one of the newbies.  Came to the interview in a suit.  Yup, I normally try to warn these folks that we’re not stuff suit and tie folks… but he did it anyway.

That’s okay… will leave us loads of jokes on his behalf for the suit… Sort of like Mr. Mohawk who showed up once upon a time on our doorstep in a three piece and trenchcoat.  He’ll likely never live that down.  Nevaaaaaaaah! <insert evil laughter here>

So come on over, what’s stopping you?  I’ve got the Bakery Cases and Starbucks curved glasses cases- do you have the Marble and Lemon Pound Cakes?

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment- where you’re never going to see us wearing a tie

Friends from Columbus GA

The thing I like best about the Frog (besides the fact that every day is bring your baby to work day) is the awesome people who come in to shop.  I admit it, my experience in restaurants and bars has always been front end because I like to jabberjaw.  If you make it out of the store without me knowing your life story it’s likely that I’m just not in.  I love hearing concepts and plans but I also love hearing stories.

Nothing made our day more than the group who came down just to visit Little Old Frog Us from Columbus GA.  I sat off to the side for a bit… probably looking more like a customer then anyone who might know anything but that’s the blonde in me… and listened to these folks and their knowledge about equipment and how to implement it.  Got to talk with one of the folks about his tour of duty in Germany and his other posts around the world.  Loved it!

I guess I sometimes feel like I served being an army brat.  My dad is retired army so when I meet someone who was stationed near where we were well then that sort of makes me feel like home.

So, whether you’re coming from Columbus GA or Savannah or even just Orlando, stop a bit and pull up a chair.  We’d love to talk to you.  When you shop at the Frog we’re here for more than just restaurant equipment, same as you are here for more.

Why not buy restaurant equipment from people you actually like and can trust?  Stop in at the Frog, get to know us and see how our inventory changes.  You’ll love us and we hope to love you.  And yes all the characters online do exist in person… even the hairy guy who has an Oppossum… Opossum… something like that

Super Sweet, Slighlty Sadistic Onion Slide

It’s time to break up the monotony of your workday and sink into some Fun With Food! Gotta love the effort on this. That’s like 5 bucks worth of onions!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

An Opossum for a Pet? Yes, an Opossum for a Pet

When riding my bike one early morning in April, I was almost back to the house when I spotted a baby opossum crawling across the sidewalk towards the street. I immediately stopped and turned him around, but he seemed a little lost and confused. Remembering that they’re nocturnal, I figured he was just blinded by the sun, wandering aimlessly to find his mother. I brought him home, figured out what to feed him through internetting prowess, and scheduled a visit to the vet. Of course, after I named him Maximilian, he was my pet, and that was that.

Turns out he’s very lucky I found him. The muscles in his front right paw are atrophied, causing him to move with a limp, so he could never run wild – or run, really, though he does try! What likely happened was that he was born with a weak paw and fell off of his mother (babies latch onto their mother’s back and hold on for dear life!) since he couldn’t hold on tightly. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

He’s surprisingly tame, and acts like a cat. Since I found him when he was only four weeks old, he hadn’t been taught to be nasty or defensive yet, so he’s extremely friendly to everyone he meets. He started off in a small cardboard box inside, and now, at almost a year old, lives in my screened-in patio with a bamboo tree that he uses for a shade, a life-size R2-D2 cooler, and a giant beach blanket he burrows in. Max is pretty smart for a little critter; he’s litter-trained, and he wants to come in, he gets on his hind legs and knocks on the sliding glass door. He spends Sundays sleeping in and eating bacon in bed.

One Fat Frog buys, sells, trades, financed, and leases used and new restaurant equipment (everything from huge commercial ovens and coolers to small wares and furniture!), and offers free custom paint jobs, free custom cutting boards, free gas conversion, and free deliveries to more parts of Florida than any other dealer, including Gainesville, Jacksonville, and Tampa.

Remember, One Fat Frog is having a sale on coolers and under counter refrigeration this week for Valentine’s Day. One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment also welcomes quick cash and package deals towards the entire stock of used commercial restaurant equipment, including these used coolers and commercial meat slicers! Come into One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment today and check out our inventory! Remember, we also take trades and buy used equipment on the spot for cash!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

You Had Me At 42″ Pizza

I am speechless. I am without speech. I love the slogan “You Think It, We Make It, You Eat It!” Man, look at that thing. I need to go lay down for a while.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Ahoy There, Finance Manager

I don’t know what the One Fat Frog restaurant Equipment in-house finance manager gets into during the weekends, but judging by the above picture, it’s awesome. I’m lucky if I can muster enough gusto to change out of my sweatpants on the weekend, but the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment in-house finance manager manages to get rigged out in full pirate regalia. Bravo, in-house finance manager, bravo.

The One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment finance manager can get you approved for all of the used commercial restaurant equipment you need, even if he isn’t dressed up as a pirate. One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is the only used restaurant equipment dealer in the nation with its own finance manager. Pretty cool, eh? No matter what shape your credit is in, the in-house finance manager will get the job done! The mighty, mighty finance manager will not rest until you have been approved for all of the used commercial restaurant equipment you need for a strong, dynamic restaurant kitchen. So stop dreaming about owning your own restaurant and come visit the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment in-house, swashbuckling finance manager today!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

secret midnight confessions of Google Girl

I really hate riddles!

OH my….

I was just about to write a little bit about our impending expansion and thought, “geez, google girl, why not listen to a little classic country on youtube?”  So in searching Classic Country I come up with a feed that has Ronnie Milsap’s Older Women.  “Great!” I say and fleet fingers jam up the volume of the old puter.  Then I look to the right on youtube and find all these suggestions about cougars.  Oh my… it is Friday night but I’m just too tired for this… so moral of the story:  don’t search youtube for classic country.

Riddle Discount Goes On and On!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment isn’t afraid to throw spontaneous discount offers at you. In fact, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has a constant Riddle Discount going on. At the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment Orlando office, there’s a wipe board that has a riddle of the day posted. Solve it and you get a sweet discount! Here’s a bonus one for everyone following the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment blog!

Two children paused on their way to school. One asked “When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, then ‘today’ will be as far from Sunday as that day was which ‘today’ when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!”

On which day of the week were the children walking to school?

If you think you have figured out this perplexing puzzle of logic, then come into One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment in Orlando and declare your superiority! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment will recognize your superiority and on top of that, we will also give you a discount towards any piece of used commercial restaurant equipment. No cheating though, don’t Google it. One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment won’t be able to tell, but it will fall heavily on your conscious.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Restaurant-Related Jokes for the Weekend

Hey, it’s the weekend! I never head to the bar without an arsenal of jokes to impress women and pool sharks. And you should too! Here are some restaurant-related jokes and one-liners that you can throw around the bar this weekend. Feel free to give me credit. They’re all guaranteed to get you kicked out of the bar.

“I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time, so I ordered pancakes during the Napoleonic War.”

Why was a restaurant called “out of this world”? Because it contained so many Unidentified Frying Objects.

Two neutrons walk into a bar. “How much for a beer?” one of them asks. Bartender looks at them, and says “For you – no charge”.

Extra points if you know which movie this joke is from: “Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of them says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’ Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life – full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.”

Have a great weekend!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

The Best Frog Joke You Will Hear on January 19

Here’s probably one of the better frog jokes I’ve heard in my lifetime:

One day a frog is sitting around on his lily pad, getting super bored. He sees a commercial on his pond’s TV for a psychic hotline and decides to give it a shot.

After a brief introduction, the psychic suddenly tells the frog: “You’re going to meet a beautiful, young girl in the near future!”

The frog replies, “Holy cow, where?! At the pond? At the club? At Denny’s? WHERE?!”

The psychic replies: “In her biology class.”

-You’re welcome.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

One Fat Frog Fails to Make DHS Internet Watch List

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 2011 “Internet Watch List” has leaked onto the web. Pretty ironic when you think about it. According to the report, sine at least June 2010, the Department of Homeland Security has been regularly monitoring social media. The purpose of the monitoring is to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.” Sites included on the list include MySpace, YouTube, Huffington Post, and Hulu. MySpace? Really?

The report also states that the DHS uses the monitoring to gauge the government’s responses to such events as the 2010 earthquake and aftermath in Haiti and security and border control related to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia,

Sadly, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment did not make the list. I for one am outraged. Whatever, DHS. We don’t want to be in your little clique anyway.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Helpful Baby Tips From the Frog

One Fat Frog Fun Fact: Can openers, when still in the box, make great baby-rocker jockeys. After One Fat Frog’s littlest tadpole nods off in her baby rocker, eventually she slides down, shifting the rocker. Nothing a can opener won’t fix!

Come into One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment for more helpful baby tips and Florida’s greatest deals on used commercial restaurant equipment.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

More Trivia From Our Mighty In-House Finance Manager

While this entry isn’t trivia in the sense that there’s a solution to figure out, which will lead you to saving even more money at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, it’s still really fun.

WHAT DO FILM BUFFS HAVE TO DO WITH BUFFALOES?

• Buff alo is originally derived from the ancient Greek word boubalos,
used first to refer to the African antelope, then later the buffalo.

• Hunters of the European buffalo referred to the animal’s leather as ‘buff ‘. This leather was useful for polishing, which is why we still buff things until they shine.

• When something has been properly buffed, it looks in good shape.

• Buff leather also happens to look like human skin. That’s why naked
people are referred to as being in the buff. In the 19th century, the
uniform of New York firemen was made from buff; soon, the firemen
themselves were known as buffs.

• Calling the fire service out was also referred to as calling in the  professionals, and soon ‘buff ‘ became another word for expert. Thus, in
time, we began to talk about film buffs, music buffs and so on.

Very cool. Interesting trivia isn’t the only thing One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment’s in-house finance manager has a knack for. He’s also probably the greatest in the entire universe at getting people approved for financing. I’ve seen it happen. A lot. No matter what shape your credit is in, the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment finance manager can get you financed for all of the used or new commercial restaurant equipment you need for your restaurant, bar, deli, diner, etc. Come into One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment today and chat him up for financing and trivia!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

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Oh Hai, One Fat Frog Tumblr!

After several decades of strategizing, arguing, and tap-dancing, the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment Tumblr site has finally launched! I knew you would be excited.

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is going to use this Tumblr page to try and keep an updated stock of what’s in the warehouse and what’s coming into the warehouse. One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment will do our very best to keep up with it, but when you’re moving the volume of commercial restaurant equipment it’s easier said than done.

Still, the site will be good for a laugh and serious discussions on the complex world of commercial restaurant equipment like the one time I ate a fried calculator. CHECK OUT THE ONE FAT FROG RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT TUMBLR AND FOLLOW US IT MOVES YOU!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

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Lip-Synce and Breastfeeding Discounts!?!?!

Ahoy there, restaurant owners and future restaurant owners of Florida and beyond! For the rest of this week, One Fat Frog restaurant Equipment is offering you the most ridiculous discount you’ve probably ever heard of. It’s simple, just come into One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment in the next two days and lip-sync along to Boston’s classic song “More Than a Feeling” to our in-house finance manager, and he will drastically drop the price on any piece of used commercial restaurant equipment you want! Or, if he’s feeling randy, he’ll take you out for a beer.

But that’s not all. Our fearless leader Google Girl is back in the office from maternity leave. She’s brought the newborn along and will be breast feeding her. If you too are breast feeding a child, bring the little one in and let’s have a Feed In! if you participate, you’ll get a Feed In discount!

As you can see, we love ridiculous and playful discount deals here at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment. It’s our way of showing you we’d rathe you be able to afford the restaurant equipment you need rather than see our pockets swell. So come on down to One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment today and lip-sync or breast feed for some major discounts!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Take the One Fat Frog Riddle Challenge!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment enjoys the lighter side of commercial restaurant equipment. If all we did all day was obsess over charbroilers and cook and hold ovens, I’m sure we’d go a little insane. That’s why we consistently hold off-the-cuff sales and offers. For example, every single day we offer a Riddle Discount. What’s a Riddle Discount you ask?  Well, every day (or week if we’re particularly lazy), One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment finds a riddle and offers it up to our customers. If they answer correctly, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment dishes them out an even bigger discount than the ones we already offer! Care to try your luck?

Alice is walking through the Forest of Forgetfulness. She wants to know what day of the week it is. She stops and asks a lion and a unicorn. Now the lion lies all of the time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The unicorn always lies on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Alice asks the lion what day it is, he says, “Well, yesterday was one of my lying days.” Alice can’t figure out just from the lion’s answer so she asks the unicorn and the unicorn says, “Yesterday was also on of my lying days.” WHAT DAY IS IT??!!?!

If you think you have the answer, come into One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment and give it your best shot. If you’re correct, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment will cut you a seriously great deal on any piece of used commercial restaurant equipment you like. but no cheating, our finance manager can sniff out a cheater from 50 yards away.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409