Richard woke to the wonderful smell of bacon, eggs, and the incredible aroma of coffee. He couldn't wait to sit down and have breakfast and his first of several cups of coffee. He left his tent to find the twins cooking, Bob was setting up his table, and Rose was making coffee. She took to the job of coffee maker and appeared to be enjoying herself.

"Morning, chief!" Shouted Rose.

"Morning, chief!" Shouted the others.

Richard sat at one of the tables, and Rick brought two plates full of bacon and eggs with two slices of toast. Rose brought two cups of coffee and sat across from Richard. She pushed one of the mugs to him. He happily grabbed the mug and dug into his breakfast. Once they finished, Mick collected the dishes. Richard felt today was going to be a great day.

"Excuse me!" Came a human voice. Richard watched as a human male bypassed the line of imps that had lined up and began buying their breakfast. "I'm looking for a manager or someone in charge." The man said as he approached Bob.

"I am Bob," Bob said, giving the man a stern glare.

"Ah yes, the great orc Bob. I heard about you," The man said, smiling at Bob. "I'm mayor Hamilton."

"Mayor?" Bob asked.

"Ah, yes, I'm in charge of the town down the road. Where you buy your goods." Mayor Hamilton said.

Richard walked over. Bob pointed at him and said, "This is our chief, Richard."

The man gave Richard his full attention when suddenly he bowed. The orcs looked down, trying to see what the man was looking for. Mayor Hamilton stood back up and extended his hand, "Nice to meet you, Chief Richard."

Richard didn't know what the man was doing but had seen humans shake hands. So Richard took the human's small hand in his larger one and shook it as gently as possible. Humans were odd creatures.

"Is there something you need, Mayor Hamilton?" Richard asked.

"Ah, yes, yes," Hamilton said, "Well, you see, we heard about your restaurant, and we greatly appreciate the business you have given us. So I thought I would come down and introduce myself. Ah, yes," The man stopped talking. His face was red with what appeared to be embarrassment.

"Yes?" Richard said, not knowing what to say to the silly man.

"Ah, yes, ah, well, you see, we saw that your guards stayed outside the town yesterday. Ah, ah, well, you are welcome to visit us." The mayor was finally able to finish his sentence quickly.

"You want us to come into your town?" Richard asked, confused.

"Ah, yes, ah. We understand how dangerous it can be with robbers and…." The mayor stopped. The orcs were the most common robbers. He hummed and looked around at the other orcs, "Well, we understand; you will need to protect your gold and other, uh, wares."

Richard, still confused, stood still and looked at the mayor. A human asked them to come into their town. That didn't happen often. There were a few places where humans and orcs mixed, but only a few. "I will tell my guards."

"While I'm here, I'd like to try this famous breakfast everyone was telling me about." The mayor said as he looked at Bob.

Bob pointed to the line, "Get in line. Four gold for coffee, eggs, bacon, and toast."

Mayor Hamilton seemed taken aback. He had thought that, being the mayor, they would immediately give him breakfast. Still, Bob seemed sternly serious, and the mayor felt arguing was not in his best interest. So, Mayor Hamilton got into line behind the imps and several humans.

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Richard looked down the line and noticed more humans than yesterday. It felt strange that Bob's plan had worked. They indeed had human bait, but instead of robbing, the humans gladly handed over their gold. Richard shook his head and returned to his usual seat behind the table.

The mayor finally made it to the front of the line. He paid and was given a mug of coffee, bacon, eggs, and toast. He sat with some other humans that appeared to know him.

Richard and Bob were both pleased to hear the humans talking.

"This is the best breakfast I've ever had." This was said by the mayor. The other humans nodded in agreement.

"The seasoning on these eggs is wonderful. I feel like I can take on an orc army." One human said.

"Hush! Don't say that in the middle of an orc army." Another hissed.

"Oh, sorry."

"Hey, mayor, you're coming back tomorrow."

"Damn right." The mayor said with enthusiasm. Looking about, shocked, he said with more dignity, "Why, yes, I am."

"Damn right, me too," chimed the others.

As the day ended, the guards followed Rick and Mick to town. Bob and Richard were nervous about the guards going but felt the mayor wouldn't lie to them. He seemed thrilled at their restaurant. It was a new word for both of them, and they liked how it sounded. It wasn't a tavern they were familiar with; it was more than that.

When the guards and imps returned, the orcs reported what had happened.

"When the little cousins went to get the goods, the other humans asked us to go into the tavern and have ale with them," One guard said.

"Yea, they had elf there singing. Ben and Betty sing better." Another said.

"The ale was good."

"They seemed to like us being there."

After hearing the guards talk, Richard decided to go to town the next day. He wanted to see this inn, ale, and singing elf. Maybe they should have an orc sing during breakfast. Ale didn't seem like it would be good with bacon and eggs, but they could have ale at night.

"Great orc Bob," Rick said as he saluted Bob and Richard. "I have an idea." Bob looked down at the little imp. "We could put the bacon between two slices of bread with some of these red things we got at the market. We also have these green things too."

Bob started to get angry, "Why did you buy these things? We don't need them."

"I asked them to get me some vegetables from the market." Rose said, "Tell me more, little cousin."

Rick blushed and then said, "Well, great Rose wanted these. I thought we could slice the red things and pull apart the green things. The bread would keep your fingers clean. We could call it bread, bacon, red, and green."

"Let's try your bread, bacon, red, and green idea," Rose said kindly.

The twins made more bacon, and they all sat around the table to try the new meal. As they began to eat, they each started to hum with enjoyment.

"This is good," Bob said with a mouth full of bread, bacon, red, and green.

Richard and the other's nodded in agreement. None wanted to talk since they were enjoying their new meal.

"Bread, bacon, red, and green is good," Mick said, spraying a little food.

"Manners!" Sneered Bob at Mick.

Richard stopped eating and stared at Bob. The others stopped eating as they watched the chief. Richard began a deep booming laugh. The others sat wide-eyed, watching their great stoic chief laugh hysterically.

Between guffs of laughter, Richard wheezed out, "An orc caring about manners!"

Rose began to giggle, the twins joined, and the rest followed. Bob sat embarrassed at what he said. But he then began to laugh too.

"Look, I'm civilized!" Betty said, and he drank his coffee with one pinkie out. The rest didn't know why he did it, but it brought more laughter.

After the laughter died, Bob said, "Tomorrow, we will offer bread, bacon, tomato, and lettuce with coffee. Five gold?" The chief nodded approval.

"That's a stupid name," Ben said.

"The red things are called tomatoes, and the green is called lettuce," Rose said.

"So bread, bacon, tomato, and lettuce?" Bob asked.

"Still a stupid name," Betty said.

"How about BBLT?" Rose said.

"Too many letters confuse me," Said Steve.

"That's because you can't count to five," Sneered Bob.

"BLT!" Richard suddenly said. "I like BLT."

The orcs and the imps looked at each other. "BLT!"