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The remaining 20 percent, however, are socially maladjust. Its hard work but he made enough and saved enough for my parents to buy two apartments and send me to harvard. Steve dublanica, author of waiter rant, cannot confirm. Six or seven years later, much to his own surprise, he was still waiting tables and anonymously recording his experiences at waiterrant. The book is interesting, funny, and provides marvelous insight into human nature at play in restaurant waiter customer transactions. Thanks for the tipconfessions of a cynical waiter by steve dublanica,196 ratings. Waiter rant is a weblog written by ex waiter steve dublanica. Granted, it has some of that, but on the whole, waiter rant is a memoir of high order. 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. Waiter rant offers the servers unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and. Thanks for the tip confessions of a cynical waiter, based on the blog, was published. Waiter rant is a weblog written by exwaiter steve dublanica.
Though certain readers have emailed steve the name he gives. Waiter rant takes an approach thats more similar to kitchen confidential than the other two, in that while it is a memoir, and does have stories about the authors career path, and previous jobs, and personal life, and coworkers, and transition from waiting tables into writing books, etc. Waiter rant book johnson county library bibliocommons. Alas, waiter rant is by one waiter who depends upon his well, the combination of a books amillion going out of business sale, my mistaken assumption that it would be a collection of essays written by various people who had once waited tables, and a cover blurb from anthony bourdain calling it painfully funny was apparently a heady. Let me know what you thought about this book if you have read it. Steve dublanica, author of waiter rant, cannot confirm or deny. The waiter started in april 2004, waiter rant is a widely viewed weblog started by a person only known as waiter now known as steve dublanica who provides biweekly more or less vignettes into the lives of wait staff and their customers at a purposefully unnamed restaurant referred to as the bistro. Thanks for the tip confessions of a cynical waiter ebook written by steve dublanica.
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