Jeff Burkhart: Choose your role models carefully

Jeff Burkhart (Photo by Lou Lesko)

Humorist Will Rogers once said, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” What’s noticeably absent from that sentiment is how he felt about them 30 seconds later. In my business, you learn to like everyone — at first.

I initially thought this man was the guest of a man I knew. They came in together, they found two seats together and they sat down together. They even ordered together.

Two martinis, if memory serves, and the irony is of all the things I remember from nights that I work...