Playing With Fire: Whining and Dining on the Gold Coast is a voyeurs peek into the crazy world of the restaurant culture. Filled with vignettes of difficult customers, stressed-out cooks, harried wait staff, and the truly disturbed, this book takes an affectionate romp through Tom Schaudels restaurants to introduce you to the most memorable cast of characters hes experienced in his forty years in the business. Youll meet a ninety-year old-woman who happens to be a serial bird-flipper, a woman trying to drag a twenty-foot Christmas tree out the front door undetected, an elderly gentleman walking out with an 8.5" x 15" metal clipboard menu holder stuffed down his pants, and a woman who got drunk, passed out, got revived, and aced an intervention, all in under twenty minutes. An absolute must read for foodies, these stories and the many others will provide pure entertainment and lots of laughs for a long, long time to come.