10. The restaurant is completely empty except a table with one 8 year old kid with extremely long pe'as staring at everyone who enters.


9. During the wait for your food, your co-workers think the kid with pe'as is cute and they start waiving smiley faces at him.  You eventually have to explain what modern Orthodox is all about.


8. Out of basic items on the menu, i.e. hamburger, french fries and/or ketchup (this could result in explaining about the kosher meat shortage and the immigrant debacle in Iowa).


7. When describing to one co-worker that schwarma is like a gyro, your co-worker asks if it is pork schwarma.


6. In a meat restaurant, when the waiter offers salad dressing, one co-worker asks if blue cheese dressing is available.


5. While you started out being the only patrons in the restaurant, eventually several other stragglers will come in who you know from your shul.  You try to ignore these people by just nodding as they are the day trader-type who don't work regular hours and are wearing hanes undershirts while you are dressed in a tie.

4. If you ever go out to eat on a Friday with your colleagues, inevitably your shul's rabbi will also be having lunch with high level guests in town from the RCA or OU.  You try to wear your sunglasses over your head to cover up the fact that you are not wearing a kipah in front of your rabbi.


3. If you are eating in the typical falafel/schwarma restaurant, trash cans have not been introduced to the establishment but instead the floor behind the serving counter is used for all trash.

2. Your non-Jewish co-workers have trouble understanding why sandwiches are three times the price they normally pay for lunch but respectfully don't say anything to you about it.

1. When discussing what kosher food is all about, one co-worker asks if this food we are eating was really blessed by the rabbi.