Dean and Monty are two longtime friends who work as waiters as Shenanigan's, a "fun" chain restaurant. Both have been working at the restaurant for about four years and it has only recently occurred to Dean that he has nothing to show for his life but a community college diploma and his name tag from work. He has developed a sudden urgency to make something of himself. Monty, on the other hand, is more interested in making time with the women on the restaurant's wait staff than accomplishing anything. Over the course of an evening at Shenanigan's, Dean and Monty confront obnoxious customers; train timid new employee Mitch; deal with the wildly eccentric chef Raddimus; control-freak manager Dan; and various other kitchen staff who are either crazed cooks, prep workers, or dish-washers.