All kinds of foods are served faster and faster--until the cook has had enough!

Don Carlos likes to do everything in a big way, but his idea to serve lots of snails in his restaurant nearly destroys the whole village.

Sam moves to Nevada with his uncle to run a café in the middle of nowhere, and although Uncle Clem insists that nothing ever happens there, his clientele consists of a number of strange characters, including Dorothy and Toto, Elvis, and Bigfoot.

The sights, sounds, and smells of a busy Chinese take-out restaurant are seen through the eyes of the owner's young son.

The author, who remembers the fragrant dishes prepared at his family's restaurant in El Salvador, recounts a mystery from his childhood involving tortillas.

Hodges and the patrons of his café are frightened when three tigers try to take over, but his crazy duck saves the day.

Tired of always being told she's too little to help in the busy kitchen of her family's Italian restaurant, Sofia is inspired by a storm and a fig tree to come up with a delicious recipe of her own. Includes facts about the foods mentioned in the story, and Italian words and phrases.

A small and ordinary fish named Glub asks himself the big questions in life as he observes life in the diner beyond his fishbowl. Who am I? Where do I belong? The lively characters around him provide unexpected answers, but soon it's Glub who reveals answers to their questions -- and their hearts' true desires.

A child describes the various little dishes of dim sum that she and her family enjoy on a visit to a restaurant in Chinatown.

When Fly Guy is not allowed in the restaurant with Buzz's family he follows his nose and ends up in the soup.