Doodnik Sharpelz Doodnik Sharpelz was a male Jillsarian who worked as a bartender and chef on the planet Tyne ' s Horky . Originally from the planet Ojom , he left his homeworld before 19 BBY and found bartending work on Tyne ' s Horky alongside his old friend Dexter Jettster . By 15 BBY , he had opened Doodnik ' s Café in the world ' s eponymous mining town , where he worked in the kitchen and entertained such customers as the local crime lord Kleb Zellock . In that year , Sharpelz hired the droids C - 3PO and R2 - D2 to work for him as waiters , but the incompetence of the duo prompted a furious Sharpelz to fire them both on their first day . Biography . Doodnik Sharpelz was a male Jillsarian who was raised by adoptive natives on the planet Ojom . He was friends with the Besalisk Dexter Jettster , and , before the year 19 BBY , the two of them left their homeworld and found employment as bartenders on Tyne ' s Horky , a mining world located on the galactic frontier . Working together , Sharpelz and Jettster prepared such drinks as photon fizzles , giva jumbo s , and circuit cider . By 15 BBY , Sharpelz had made a deal with the Dirconite mercenary Kleb Zellock and become part - owner of a restaurant and tapcafe in a lawless mining town also called Tyne ' s Horky . Although the Jillsarian was the proprietor of Doodnik ' s Café , Zellock , as the leader of the planet ' s criminal underworld , used the establishment as his base of operations . Sharpelz worked as a chef in the kitchen , and in 15 BBY , he hired two waiters through the Intergalactic Droid Agency : the protocol droid C - 3PO and the astromech droid R2 - D2 . When the droids arrived at the eatery one morning , Sharpelz immediately put them to work . He grew frustrated when the two had trouble remembering orders , repeatedly tripped over each other , and proved to be the worst waiters that the locals had ever seen . Late in the day , C - 3PO spilled some powder on Sharpelz ' s face , and the chef angrily sent him to serve Zellock . When the crime lord ' s henchman Yorpo Mog tripped over R2 - D2 and landed in Zellock ' s food , Mog threw the astromech across the café . R2 - D2 crashed into both C - 3PO and Sharpelz , and the chef responded by immediately firing his new waiters , tossing them out into the street , and telling them never to return . Personality and traits . Doodnik Sharpelz was a gruff and greasy chef with orange skin , black pupils , and four brawny arms . He employed all of his upper limbs while preparing food , during which he was able to perform four different tasks simultaneously . Hardened by fringe life , Sharpelz was intolerant of incompetence in his kitchen and was quick to anger . He threatened to melt C - 3PO shortly before furiously firing both the protocol droid and his astromech companion . Sharpelz took care to provide good service to Kleb Zellock , who owned a stake in the café , but he did not take care to keep the establishment clean . Sharpelz came to Tyne ' s Horky full of gastronomic dreams . A skilled bartender , he mixed a photon fizzle that Dexter Jettster believed was unrivaled . Circuit cider was another of his signature drinks . Sharpelz always served giva jumbos in bowls , although Jettster could not figure out why . All in all , Jettster thought his comrade a fine fellow . Behind the scenes . The character of Doodnik first appeared in " The Lost Prince , " the fifth episode of the " " animated television series . Written by Peter Sauder and directed by Raymond Jafelice , the episode first aired on October 5 , 1985 . Doodnik is also in " " , a children ' s book adaptation of the episode , and brief mentions of the character have been made in several other " Star Wars " publications throughout the years . Author Tim Veekhoven has surmised that Doodnik and his café influenced the designs of Dexter Jettster and his diner , which were seen in the 2002 film . The short story " Dining at Dex ' s " , written by Gregory Walker and published online through StarWars . com ' s feature in 2009 , describes Doodnik as an old friend of Jettster . Walker tied the two characters together due to what he believed were obvious similarities between them , and he originally considered making them brothers , thereby establishing Doodnik ' s species as Besalisk . He ultimately left their relationship vague and did not reveal Doodnik ' s species , although he did name the character ' s home planet as the Besalisk homeworld of Ojom . Despite striking visual differences between Doodnik and the Besalisks , Walker yet believed that Doodnik could plausibly have been a member of that species . Doodnik was finally established as being a member of the Jillsarian species in the 2013 article " The Droids Re - Animated " , written by Abel G . Peña and Rich Handley for the StarWars . com blog . The article also provided the character with a last name : Sharpelz . Peña and Handley had wanted to make the Jillsarian retcon for years , but with the release of " Dining at Dex ' s " , Peña was concerned that it would be difficult to disassociate Doodnik from the heavy implication that he was a Besalisk . As the Besalisk connection had not been airtight , however , he ultimately went with what he has described as a " near - flawless " connection and a " perfect " retcon . Peña also praised Walker ' s work and asserted that he would have made Doodnik a Besalisk if he had not known about Jillsarians .