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More copies of this ISBN:Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip -- Confessions of a Cynical Waiterby The Waiter
Powells.com Staff PickWaiter Rant is a delightful look at restaurant life from the other side of the tablecloth. The Waiter will enlighten and instruct you while sometimes grossing you out. Comparisons to Kitchen Confidential can’t be avoided, and Waiter Rant is a welcome addition to the subgenre.
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 truly thrived.
Review:"The anonymous restaurant professional behind the Bloggie Award — winning WaiterRant.net expands on his postings in his first book. The result is an enjoyable if utterly unromantic personal expos on the inner workings of the New York City — area restaurants that have employed him since 1999. To his first job, the Waiter brought abandoned dreams and ambitions for a religious vocation, an eventual psychology degree and employment experiences in a drug-rehabilitation center. That history proved useful in professional service, particularly a restaurant that, with its corrupt manager and dictatorial boss and despite its upmarket setting, clientele and business volume, was an example of the very worst in the industry. The narrative hangs on the author's professional development from restaurant newbie to jaded industry-spokesperson; he makes ample room for extended riffs on manners, money, morals and even meals. He catalogues the grime-and-gross-out factors (some obscene), so comparisons to Kitchen Confidential are inevitable." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:"If you've ever worked in food service, Waiter Rant will make you smile with rueful recognition; if you haven't, the book may change your restaurant manners or...stop you from ever eating out again." Very Short List
Review:"A heartfelt, irreverent look at the underbelly of fine dining." Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis:Based on the award-winning blog, Waiter Rant tells the story from the server's point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogance, and misbehavior.
About the AuthorThe Waiter waited his first table at age thirty-one. In 2004 the author started his wildly popular blog, www.WaiterRant.net, winning the 2006 "Best Writing in a Weblog" Bloggie Award. He is interviewed regularly by major media as the voice for many of the two million waiters in the United States. The Waiter lives in the New York metropolitan area. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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