Chef Dennis has been quite depressed lately as his wife Mildred has just left him for being "dull."  After dinner service that night, he and the waitresses, along with Nancy, discuss his situation in which the girls come up with the idea of having Dennis date a woman in front of Mildred at the restaurant that she frequents often for lunch so that she'll get jealous and return to Dennis.  Dennis agrees with the idea and chooses Cassie as his date over Nancy.  The next day, Cassie and Dennis have their date at the restaurant in question and he spots Mildred at another table with her date, who turns out to be Mildred's hairdresser (not the young man that Dennis saw her with days earlier).  After applying her wiles at Dennis at their table, Cassie sees that Mildred's interest has been peaked and tells Dennis to go over to Mildred's table and have it out with her.  He does, but he returns to his and Cassie's table with a plate full of linguini and clam sauce spilled all over his person (Dennis then tells Cassie that Mildred just told him that she is filing for divorce). 

After not showing up for work at Above The Top for three straight days, Nancy calls Dennis at his apartment and threatens to fire him if he doesn't show up for that night's dinner service.  While discussing Dennis' plight amongst each other while setting up the tables, Cassie, Jan, Dot and Maggie agree to go to Mildred's mother's apartment after work (Mildred is staying there temporarily while she's preparing to file her divorce against Dennis) so they can talk to Mildred and save her and Dennis' marriage.  All four ladies try to reason with Mildred, but to no avail (Cassie and Jan have objects thrown at them by Mildred, which hit the inside of the apartment's front door).  Dennis then shows up at the apartment and tries talking to Mildred; he, too, fails.  Later at Dennis' apartment, Nancy show up and apologizes to Dennis for her behavior over the phone while using her wiles to seduce him (Dennis is oblivious to this while looking at his old high school photos).  Just then, Mildred shows up at the apartment and catches Dennis and Nancy sitting together on the couch and leaves.  The following day, Dennis comes back to work at Above The Top and explains to Nancy, the girls, and Sonny that he and Mildred have talked things out and are both back together again, which slightly embarrasses Nancy, causing the restaurant to return to normal. 

  After being rejected at an audition for a TV commercial for floor wax, Dot is extremely excited that another audition she went to has become successful: she gets the female lead to a play called The Garden Of Countess Natasha, which tells the story of a Hungarian countess who comes to America and falls in love with a union organizer.  Dot invites the gang(sans Nancy) at Above The Top to see a preview of the play and when they do, they are shocked at how awful Dot was as Countess Natasha.  When Dot shows up at the theater lobby to see if the gang liked the play or not, the girls lie through their teeth by telling her how terrific she was.  As the play continues to be presented, Dot develops a bit of an uppity attitude as she tells Nancy upon arriving to work late, as usual, one day that she's giving a two-week notice of severence from Above The Top, as she tells Nancy and the girls that the play is going to Broadway soon.  At the kitchen, Jan, Cassie, and Maggie tell Dot the truth about her acting in the play, but Dot perceives their comments as nothing more than a fit of jealousy.  

  At a party that the theater company holds at Above The Top a few nights later, the girls read Dot some reviews about The Garden Of Countess Natasha, which says the same thing that the girls have been saying all along: that Dot was no good in the play.  She goes to the director of the play who is seated at another table at the restaurant and tells her that both he and Dot have been fired from The Garden Of Countess Natasha company.  Saddened and dejected by what just transpired, Dot excuses herself to the girls and goes to the waitress lounge to be alone, but Nancy shows up and tells Dot that she is actually a good actress, despite the fact that the lead role in the play was all wrong for her(Nancy saw the play the week before).  After telling Dot a personal story about her wanting to be a dancer years earlier, Nancy tells Dot that she should continue to pursue her dream of becoming a successful actress and that she should keep her job at Above The Top while doing so.  Nancy ends the conversation by saying that if Dot tells the girls about their little talk, she will slap her so hard that her future kids will come out dizzy like her.

Note: beginning with this episode, as mentioned in the 1st episode synopsis of Season 2, It's A Living(known during this season as "Making A Living") is moved to the Friday night lineup, where it will stay until the network cancels the program for good at the end of the 1981-82 television season.