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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Dublanica Aka The Waiter
Publisher: Ecco
Category: Book
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Rating:  150 reviews
Sales Rank: 3361
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061256684
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.95068
EAN: 9780061256684
ASIN: 0061256684
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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 Title says it all November 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It took me a long time to get through this book and the author's journey as a waiter. A few bits were entertaining, but too much complaining to read about as what occupation does not have its pitfalls and when you interact w/ others of course some won't be saints. He should try to be a hospital staff nurse or an inner city public school teacher for a week. I did not come away from the reading experience enlightened nor did I bother to visit his website. Frankly I wished I had passed on this one, but the premise of the book did catch my eye.
Great premise; got bored after first 40 pages November 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I never finished this book. It would have worked better as a long essay. The author doesn't have enough interesting information to fill up a book, and the writing is workmanlike. I could have done without it.
Waiter Rant - Accurate Account of Waiting Tables November 9, 2008
This is a funny, extremely accurate account of waiting tables and the things that happen, people you come across and the hilarity that ensues. I found the areas about how to be a good customer and items to always have with you at the end of the book good for anyone to read - whether a customer that frequently eats at restaurants or a server who works part time or full time. Definitely worth the read - a front of the house Kitchen Confidential!
Memories...... November 9, 2008
I enjoyed reading this book for the memories it brought back of my table-waiting days, even though mine weren't in a fine-dining establishment. It also reminded me that, now as a critical care nurse, I haven't come all that far from those days. The parallels are astounding (and disheartening)! An entertaining read, if a little too much soul-searching for my taste.
 Just OK November 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this culinary tell-all. Encouraged by some prominent professional reviews, and a review of his website, I began reading eagerly. Unfortunately, the story is only mildly engaging, and intermittently amusing. Although the writer is competent, his style doesn't draw you into his story. I enjoyed Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential more. Perhaps that is because it was the first book in this category for me, but also because Bourdain is more outrageous and bombastic as a storyteller. I wonder if Bourdain is more truthful, or maybe it is just show business, but The Waiter was too mild for my taste. I wondered why he would bother with a pseudonym, since Waiter's Rant didn`t seem very offensive to me. I finished this book only because I wanted to review it, not because it held my rapt attention. Like a meal at a chain restaurant, it was not bad, just bland.
The Waiter does put in some useful tips about how to size up a restaurant, get along with your waiter, what to order or avoid, and when to go, but one doesn't need a whole book to say that. The Waiter also describes some fairly unpleasant ways that he can get even with a rude customer. Nevertheless, even when he describes outrageous restaurant behavior, Dublanica made me sleepy, not hungry.
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