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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,
...2) Servers
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces servers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The story of how Matthew Batt, a forty-something professor on sabbatical, found himself returning to a job waiting tables. And loving it. In this rare and vivid memoir, he details the challenge and satisfaction of meeting the demands of a fine dining restaurant's frenzied kitchen and equally expectant crowd. Told with sharp humor, humility, and a keen sense of what matters, The Last Supper Club is an ode to working in restaurants, the relationships...
4) Sacrificio
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan from the provinces, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and no clue what his future will be or what he stands for (he doesn't even know his age-seventeen? eighteen?). He falls into a job as a waiter in a tiny makeshift tourist restaurant that the resilient, middle-aged Cecilia has created out of her backyard patio. Rafa is soon drawn into a web of bizarre, ever-shifting entanglements, first with Cecilia's older son...
5) Waiting
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Dean and Monty are two longtime friends who work as waiters as Shenanigan's, a "fun" chain restaurant. Both have been working at the restaurant for about four years and it has only recently occurred to Dean that he has nothing to show for his life but a community college diploma and his name tag from work. He has developed a sudden urgency to make something of himself. Monty, on the other hand, is more interested in making time with the women on the...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The delicious true story of an inventive chef and the serendipitous events that led to the creation of the world's favorite snack--nachos! Ignacio Anaya was born in Mexico in 1895, and like a lot of Ignacios, he was nicknamed Nacho. Young Nacho loved to eat and cook, and when he grew up, he found a job in a restaurant. Eventually he became head waiter at the Victory Club, a popular restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico, right across the Rio Grande...
Author
Publisher
Monoray, an Imprint of Octopus Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door...is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world--and right into its glorious underbelly.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Over the course of four episodes, two young women - one from the city, the other from the country - meet and bond over an exquiste atmospheric event. They, then, room together in Paris, where they encounter many of the inevitable charaters of a modern city; the impossible waiter, the metro station hustler, and the snooty gallery owner. Rohmer imbues them with his special brand of magic, making them remarkably compelling and unforgettable.
9) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
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