MY FIRST HOSPITALITY JOB WAS IN A BELFAST kebab shop called Abrakebabra. If this sounds like an amusing aberration, Abrakebabra is in fact Ireland’s premier kebab shop chain, romantically pairing drunk people with doner kebabs since 1982.
We wore green baseball caps with palm trees on them, for authenticity. I was still at school, so I only worked weekends, and my shift was 9 to 5. Except this meant 9pm to 5am, and we had a braying queue out the door between 11pm (pub kicking-out-time) and
