Jerry is intrigued that his girlfriend Abby has a mentor. Cynthia, Abby's mentor, is dating Kenny Bania. After she sees Bania's act, Abby loses respect for Cynthia and parts ways with her. George is assigned a lecture on risk management because his résumé says he is an expert on the subject. He cannot study for it because he hates reading. When George discovers the blind can get any book on tape, he intentionally flunks an eye test so he can get his book on tape. However, the reader's voice sounds like him, grating on him.
Elaine summons Eddie Sherman, a mailroom employee, to fire him for incompetence. When she meets him, she is intimidated by his gruff voice and military fatigues, so she promotes him instead just to have an excuse for the summons. He does a terrible job, so Elaine promotes him again to get rid of him. The other writers quit in outrage because he was promoted over them, forcing Elaine to write the catalogue alone with Eddie.
Kramer hosts a Jewish singles night at Frank's Knights of Columbus hall, but when he realizes that he cannot cook Jewish food, he begs for Frank's help. Frank refuses, still haunted by memories cooking for the army during the Korean War, when he sickened troops by over-seasoning three-week-old meat in an attempt to make it palatable.
When Cynthia dumps Bania because of his poor act, he turns to Jerry for advice. Jerry agrees to be his mentor. Hearing that Abby is looking for a new mentor, George takes her on so as to con her into studying and summarizing risk management for him. Their files get mixed, and Bania delivers Abby's summary of risk management (which earns good laughs) and George reads Jerry's routine on Ovaltine. Frank, displeased at Estelle's cooking, decides to cook again and helps Kramer get ready for Jewish singles night. Working well as a team of two, Elaine and Eddie finish the catalogue. When Elaine finds out that he adopted his frightening persona after a failure to meet a nice Jewish woman and settle down, she takes him to the Jewish singles night. The food is a hit, and Frank feels reborn. Due to his impressive string of promotions, Cynthia makes Eddie a better job offer. Distraught at losing her last remaining writer, Elaine violently shakes him, making him choke on his food; this, combined with Eddie's fatigues, gives Frank a flashback of the food-poisoning incident, driving him to throw his food off the tables and topple the entire buffet.