The 3rd annual River City Brewers Festival will be Saturday, March 31 in Handy Park on Beale Street.

Beer from the across the country will be available for sampling as well as samples of signature dishes from some of Memphis' finest restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe and Pa Pa Pia's.

International brews will also be available for sampling.

More than 60  brewers are participating in the event with over 100 different flavors of beer. Samples are included in the price of admission for the festival.

The Ronald McDonald House has been selected as the benefactor for this year's festival.

River City Brewer's Festival

"Waiter, I'll take my time. Hold the courtesy."

That could be the caption for a photo of three customers at Cordova's Huey's Restaurant recently as they sat at a table with a sign that clearly read  "4 or more only please."

Yet these three commandeered that table, ate, paid their bills.

Then they sat there. 15 minutes. 20 minutes. 30 minutes.

I know -- because my family was standing right by them waiting to be seated.

It was Sunday night. Band night at Huey's. The place was rocking. Standing room only when we arrived.

My family -- and two others -- were waiting. The wait staff was in the weeds. Yet these three yapped and yapped, seemingly indifferent to the people within an elbow of them.

Customers' selfishness not only hurts other customers, but it also stalls a restaurant's business. If an establishment isn't rotating tables, it isn't making money.

Despite reporting Mid-South restaurants' health inspection scores every Thursday on Andy's Restaurant Scorecard, I continue to meet viewers who don't know restaurants are required to post those scores, whether it's Tennessee, Mississippi or Arkansas.

Establishments must post those scores someplace where customers can see them:  the entrance, cash register, bar, etc.

If they don't, it's a health code violation. 

Mississippi's health department uses a letter-grade system:  A, B, C. No failures. They are white reports with large, green grades. Restaurants typically frame them for public inspection.

The restaurant inspectors of the Arkansas Department of Health don't employ a grading system at all. They just list the violations.