Hillary Clinton on Thursday stepped behind an Ohio diner counter, and appeared perfectly comfortable taking orders.

"I've waited tables before," the Democratic presidential candidate acknowledged, as she chatted up the Rio Grande, Ohio, restaurant staff and wrote up an order, according to Nytimes.com

She was holding court at a Bob Evans restaurant in southeastern Ohio. The Times' Caucus blog reports she discussed grits, stuffed pancakes among other diner fare delicacies.

"I might as well take a few orders," she said, reaching for a pad.

A waitress noted she seemed seasoned in order-taking, bringing a Clinton aide to divulge that the candidate indeed had prior experience in the service industry: at a family restaurant in high school, a Chinese restaurant at Yale, and dish-washing at a restaurant-lodge in Alaska in the summer of 1969.

Clinton -- maybe signaling? -- pointed to her lesser known record of achievement, in case her White House fails.

"In case this other endeavor I'm involved in doesn't work out, I know I can always come back to Bob Evans," she said.

But the experience took her only so far as she got stumped on the pronunciation of the town she was visiting. Rio Grande, Ohio, doesn't sound like the Rio Grande in Texas.

"Are you a student at Rio Grande?" she asked one college-aged diner, pronouncing it like the Spanish word for river. Two older men were quick to correct her. "Rio!" they said, with a long "I" like "Rye-oh."

"RYE-oh Grande," she said. "Rye-oh in Ohio!"

The mnemonic device helped her as she was leaving -- when several locals were ecstatic that she'd pronounced the name of their town correctly.

FOX News' Aaron Bruns contributed to this report.

Click here to read The New York Times Caucus blog post.