not a good idea. makes a huge mess, not to mention it is used for stage, not close-up/restaurant

Jay Sankey's "Snowstorm" is a card trick.

oh, my bad. i was thinking of snow storm in china...

dbaker_creator, what do you do withing the first 5 seconds to show something magical? Do you use the line, "Hi, I am the house magician" line or do you show them something first?

By the way thanks to all of you that are contributing good information and not just ripping into a fellow performer. I appreciate it.

My favorite opener is the blank deck flourish.

Blank deck - cut - regular deck - move onto the next trick.

i very recently went to a pizza parlor, and one of my magic mentors is the magician there. he starts off, hi i am the silverware inspector, he picks up a piece of silver ware, and says, there is silver in here, the question is where. he then produces three coins out of the the knife, fork, whatever... and goes into a brilliant three coin routine, and then vanished them all back into the silverware.

I got live at the jail house dvd's and it had some good restaurant tricks. I really like paul greens stuff. Thanks for all your advise.

Paul Green and Jim Pace are the sages of the subject. Do as they say, and ye shall flourish.