Question: What person is asked for help by Stan in the opening of "Stan's Food Restaurant?"
About the article "American Dad!", section "Farces".

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Plot techniques.
"American Dad!"
has commonly made use of farces as most of the predicaments that befall the main characters have escalated into the extremes, to the point of getting outrageously out-of-hand.
For example, in the episode "Home Wrecker", Stan and Francine's marital harmony breaks down from a difference of opinion on remodeling the house.
It gets to the point where they divide the house in two, each decorating their half of the house in their desired fashion.
Not satisfied with this however, they both attempted to drive the other out of the home and eventually erected a colossal block wall, dividing the two halves of the house.
The rest of the family members were forced to spend one holiday after the next alternating between Fran's and Stan's place (the sides of the house treated as distinct homes).
As another example, in the episode "Stan's Food Restaurant", Stan asks for Roger's help in starting a restaurant.
As things progress, Roger makes heavy changes in the layout, eventually kicking Stan out of the project.
Stan retaliates by opening another restaurant next door, which becomes a smashing success.
Roger responds by blowing up Stan's restaurant but destroying his own in the process.
Stan threatens to kill Roger, but backs down after Roger pulls a gun on him and tells him to relax.
After another disastrous trip to a restaurant, Stan finally reveals to Francine why they can never find a restaurant that suits him: After his father left, Stan's mother took him to Johnson's Parlor in Philadelphia, where they had everything from chocolate covered hot dogs to cherry pie pizza.
After they left, Johnson's exploded and Stan could never again relive the joy he had at the restaurant.
Francine suggests that Stan open his own restaurant, and so Stan turns to Roger for help.
As construction progress, Roger makes heavy changes to the layout, eventually kicking Stan out of the project.
Stan takes control and opens his own restaurant right next door, which is a huge success.
Unable to admit defeat, Roger blows up Stan's restaurant which ends up burning his own in the process.
Roger explains it as a way to cover up the arson, by having Stan's place as the source of the fire.
Stan threatens to kill him but backs down when Roger points a gun at him and tells him to relax.
Meanwhile, Steve meets Ashley, who was kicked out of her last school for having too much sex.
She invites Steve over while her parents are out of town, asking him to bring a friend for her friend Julia.
When he comes over with Snot, they find that Julia is actually a doll.
Snot's frustrations eventually culminate to Ashley assuming that Snot "raped" Julia.
After an unpleasant experience while Julia "gets an abortion", Steve and Snot attempt to make it seem as though Julia killed herself.
But when Ashley realizes she was "murdered", Steve gives up, leaves in frustration, and calls Ashley a weirdo. 
Stan is an official officer of the CIA.
Stan has shown expertise and knowledge in hand to hand combat, small arms, covert survillence methods, torture, the ability to fly aircraft and the handling of assault weapons.
Even though he has been arrested several times on several felony charges, such as animal cruelty, child pornography (though this was a wrongful accusation), attempted murder, drug trafficking, possession and use of crack cocaine (he almost flees to South America), transporting infected cattle to be slaughtered for food, impersonating a U.S.
Marshal, and identity theft, he retains his official position.
Though it is well known he works for the CIA, very little is actually known about what exactly he does.
Sometimes he is seen as a field operative, sometimes an undercover agent, sometimes surveillance officer, even presidential bodyguard, but most often he is seen working in a small cork-walled cubicle with a few of his buddies: Jackson, Sanders, Dick Reynolds, and others.
Smith's assumption of these different roles may indicate that he works as a sort of troubleshooter; taking on different responsibilities as required.
However, since assuming the role of Deputy Deputy Director, his duties do not appear to have changed.
In the episode "Chimdale", it is revealed that Stan Smith has been bald since college and wears a wig (however, this episode contradicts several past episodes, including "Frannie 911," in which Roger scalped Stan while roleplaying as an American Indian and "Choosy Wives Choose Smith," in which Stan's hair grew after spending months on a deserted island).
He drives a black Ford Explorer but has also been seen driving a black Chrysler 300C and owns a DeLorean despite not having seen or even knowing about the movie "Back to the Future".
Stan is also known to have an unexplained fear of seagulls, first mentioned by Francine in "American Dream Factory", although he got over it in "Choosy Wives Choose Smith".
Despite his traditional values, he has been married to two other women.
In Saudi Arabia, Stan married an Arabic woman and named her "Thundercat" because he could not pronounce her name, though Stan married her mainly as a servant.
At one point Francine divorced Stan so that he could have pointless sex, and he met and married a woman named Joanna, but went back to Francine, though Stan reports that he did consummate the marriage.
It is interesting to note that both Stan and Francine admit that each married the other for what Stan describes as selfish reasons.
That is, that Stan admits that he married Francine because she was attractive.
Francine, for her part, says that she wants someone to take care of her financially and both go so far as to admit this during their vow renewal ceremony to a room full of people.
In the episode "Stan's Food Restaurant" it is revealed that Stan is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Once back home, Stan went to school for an accounting degree, married, and had a daughter.
She also joined an organization to help abused women.
Both she and Janice have changed their last names and continue to live in California.
There is no communication between the women.
In March 2009, an updated version of Stan's story written by Jim Green was published under the title "Colleen Stan, The Simple Gifts of Life" (ISBN 978-1440118371). 
Following the severe damage and extensive loss of life in Stan's wake, the World Meteorological Organization retired the name "Stan" from the circulating list of Atlantic hurricane names.
For the 2011 season, Stan was replaced by Sean.