I love Middle Eastern food, even though I've never eaten any [View All]

[jmowreader]

Part of our customer service is cutting wood for customers.

On Wednesday, a woman came up to us. "I need some wood cut." She pointed at a stack of $32/sheet South American Mahogany plywood and asked for 19 sheets, all cut in different widths. No problem. Get a forklift, get another associate, haul the stack of plywood back to the saw and cut all of it up since all I had was 19 sheets.

On the way to the register, she explained that she didn't bring the company credit card with her (yes, warning bells should be going off in your head) but she'd be back later in the day to pay for it. And she walks out, leaving me with $600 worth of custom-cut plywood.

On Thursday I get a call from her. "We'll be right down to pay for it." No show.

This morning, I was with a customer who was buying stuff for the dining room of his new Middle Eastern restaurant when I get another call...yup, you guessed it: "We don't want the plywood." My jaw dropped so far, so fast, that the Saudi gentleman I was helping asked what was wrong. I explained it to him. "Where is the plywood?" I took him to it. "How much is it?" I pulled out my calculator and did some figuring..."I will take it." Whipped out his Visa and was on his way with so much plywood in his van the back was sagging.

To thank this guy for making my week less-rotten (losing one of my best cats and $600 worth of plywood in the space of five days would have been too hard to take), I will eat at his restaurant. Any ideas as to what Middle Eastern dishes are good?