My sister used to work for a company that sold Resort Supplies & Catering Supplies when she first graduated from high school. I can remember how excited she was to work there because she was given an employee discount on everything that they sold there, and she was in the process of getting ready to move out of our parents home and into her own apartment. She was convinced that the commercial use quality of Hotel Supplies & Restaurant Supply products would last her a lot longer than the products that she could buy at a department store at the same prices. I can remember going to a Japanese steakhouse with her while she was working for that company and she told me that restaurant was one of their customers, and her pointing out the dinnerware, flatware and glassware, even the napkins were from her company.

She hasn’t worked for that company for a very long time now; I wonder whatever happened to it. I know a few years after she left there that they moved their offices to a different location. Anyway, the whole reason that I was even thinking about any of this is because I’ve noticed that we are running low on drinking glasses and I was thinking about how the local stores here don’t seem to sell anything even remotely durable. I’d like to get some that can take a little bit of rattling around without shattering, and restaurant quality would be a good thing to get.