Tempest in a Casserole: Box 13

“Tempest in a Casserole” is an episode of Box 13, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dan Holiday receives a letter from Nick, a restaurant owner on 10th Street, asking for help with his business troubles. When Dan visits, he finds that Nick's restaurant is being overrun by coffee drinkers who nurse single cups all day, driving away his paying customers. Dan suggests a minimum charge sign to solve the problem, but when Nick implements the solution, unforeseen consequences create a new crisis that brings Nick calling back for Dan's assistance.

Nick's restaurant on 10th Street, between Caldwell's department store and a bank; Dan's office

Characters: Dan Holiday, Nick, Susie, Steve

Listen for: The mix-up between a carousel and a casserole that Susie ordered; Nick's growing panic as his solution to the coffee drinkers backfires dramatically; the escalating phone calls from an increasingly desperate Nick.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.