While out to dinner with Jerry and Elaine, George puts out a fire on the table next to them. The manager comes out, and George tells him everything is fine, just that the busboy put the menu too close to the candle. Elaine jokingly comments “I’m never eating here again”. The gang then sees the manager fire the busboy. George feels especially bad, and spends the rest of the episode trying to make it up to the former busboy, only to make his life continually worse.