Waiter Rant
Thanks for the Tip--confessions of a Cynical Waiter
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 13, 2009
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat.
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- Who it’s for
- Restaurant life, seen from the server’s side, mixes outrageous behavior with unexpected human grace.
- Themes
- Restaurant service, Customer behavior, Career uncertainty
- Genres
- Food World Lives, Humor, Personal Memoirs
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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.
Continue reading
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.
Behind the Table
Restaurant life, seen from the server’s side, mixes outrageous behavior with unexpected human grace.
Come here for
- Outlandish customer behavior and fleeting kindness
- The unvarnished etiquette of service and tipping
Expect
- Pointers on tipping, good service, and keeping your meal intact
- A working server’s unresolved question about what comes next
Where it sits
| Humor | 54% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 40% |
| Food World Lives | 34% |
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Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- The Food Business
- Cooking for One
- Food Writing & Memoir
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- Authors
- Steve Dublanica
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 13, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Restaurant service · Customer behavior · Career uncertainty
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs