Jean, a restaurant hostess, who logged into her account at an after-hours gathering with a Houston's manager to show him the site.

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When his mom was working as a restaurant hostess, and was going to marry the owner, Erick ate hot-fudge sundaes and drank chocolate shakes.

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In a separate incident, Jackson apologized to his constituents in September 2010 after the Chicago Sun-Times reported a Chicago businessman told federal investigators that Jackson had asked him to pay for a restaurant hostess to fly between Washington and Chicago several times.

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At the Cracker Barrel restaurant, the hostess knows him as the polite man in pajamas who asks for a corner table, where he can keep a lookout.

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Sometimes it was a matter of politeness, as in the Luberon farm restaurant where the beaming hostess set a vast caldron of lamb navarin before us.

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Nevertheless, as I walk through the corridors of business organizations, enter meetings that are about to begin, embark on various modes of transportation and even engage with the host or hostess in a restaurant, I rarely see people smiling.

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