It was the best of jobs, it was the worst of jobs.

Elena Tucker
4 min readSep 11, 2019
Photo by Alex Kotliarskyi on Unsplash

The worst job I ever had was my very first job. It was working at a buffet restaurant in Denver, Colorado, called The Royal Fork. It was a restaurant with the concept that was years ahead of its time — more like a food court, but all part of one restaurant — The Royal Fork consisted of four or five cafeteria’s around the perimeter — one Chinese, one Mexican, one American-style, etc., and then a large…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.