Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. WAITER RANT offers the server’s unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant...
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According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. WAITER RANT offers the server’s unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in the most unlikely places. Through outrageous stories, The Waiter reveals the secrets to getting good service, proper tipping etiquette, and how to keep him from spitting in your food. The Waiter also shares his ongoing struggle, at age thirty-eight, to figure out if he can finally leave the first job at which he’s really thrived. "The other shoe finally drops. The front-of-the-house version of Kitchen Confidential; a painfully funny, excruciatingly true-life account of the waiter’s life. As useful as it is entertaining. You will never look at your waiter the same way again–and will never tip less than 20%." --Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential "I really enjoyed WAITER RANT. The book is engaging and funny, a story told from my polar opposite perspective. I will now do my best to act better as a Chef -- and I dare say, I’ll never be rude to a waiter again, as long as I live."--John DeLucie, Chef of The Waverly Inn
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Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781423370727 (1423370724)
Publish date: August 1st 2008
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Funny,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
Cooking,
Foodie
book does not deserve the 1-star reviews that are cluttering up the front page of its entry. Dublanica merely provides an easy target-- you'd be a trifle hesitant to 1-star, say, a book written by a executioner or some celebrity CEO who theoretically could have you fired by the next business day, bu...
As a life-long waitress, this book spoke to me. Loved his humor. Loved his tales of server mishaps. Good read for anyone who has ever done this for a living.
Although this is ostensibly a collection of a waiter's experiences on the job, I hesitate to shelve it in non-fiction. Dublanica so clearly takes artistic licenses that very little rings true. There are a few sections that seem real, but the majority of this book is either Dublanica talking about ...
I didn't like this book that much, I'm sorry to say. I'm sorry to say so because it came highly recommended by a close friend of mine, because it's about an industry I'm intrigued by, and because the author often cites theological, historical, and psychological points I find utterly fascinating. It ...
There really needs to be a button that says - 'half read'. I picked this up at the airport on our way to our honeymoon as a quick and quirky beach read but I got about page 160 and gave up. Yes, even though the first 50 pages half intrigued me, I thought a plot would envail ... it didn't, so I gav...