ISBN: 0061256692
Godina izdanja: 2009
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Steve Dublanica - Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip, Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
Harper Collins, 2009
302 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

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.

`The Waiter pulls you to the frontlines of a busy, high-priced New York café. War stories of Mother`s Day and Valentine`s Day, shady managers, and patronizing clients smack of shades of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, but with a purpose: to educate foodies on the dos and don`ts of proper dining etiquette.... [Waiter Rant] will entertain readers with a taste for the sardonic and might just inspire a precious few to leave more than a 15 percent tip at the
Cheesecake Factory.`
-Variety
`Extremely funny, no-nonsense, and insightful.`
-New York Times Book Review
`The main attraction here is [Dublanica`s] acerbic, biting, and often hilarious accounts of life behind-the-scenes at the front of the house.`
-Wall Street Journal
`I really enjoyed Waiter Rant. The book is engaging and funny, a story told from my polar opposite perspective. I will now do my best to act better as a chef-and I dare say I`ll never be rude to a waiter again, as long as I live.`
-John DeLucie, Chef at Waverly Inn and author of The Hunger
`Here is my unabashed recommendation: if you eat out with any
regularity, read this book!`
-Chicago Sun-Times
`Waiter Rant has all the fixings for fun.... What Anthony Bourdain`s tell-all about life in the kitchen did for hollandaise sauce, Waiter Rant will do for side salads.`
-Los Angeles Times
`[Waiter Rant] offers an irreverent, insightful look inside the in-dustry.`
-Boston Globe
`Funny and touching.`
-Chicago Tribune
`In the casual, confessional tone of a seasoned blogger, The Waiter tells of corruption, intrigue, drug abuse, heated romance, and, of course, tips, weaving it all into a humorously detailed memoir..... A heartfelt, irreverent look at the underbelly of fine dining.`
-Kirkus Reviews

`WAITER RANT has all the fixings for fun. What-Anthony Bourdain`o-tell-all-about-life-10-the kitchen did for hollandaise sauce, WAITER RANT will do for side salads.` -LOS ANGELES TIMES
According to The Waiter, 80 percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining 20 percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths.
Eye-opening, outrageous, and unabashed-replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen tidbits of human grace in the most unlikely places-Waiter Rant presents the server`s unique point of view, reveal ing surefire secrets to getting good service, proper tipping etiquette, and ways to ensure that your waiter won`t spit on your food.
`Acerbic, biting, and often hilarious accounts of life behind-the-scenes at the front of the house.` Wall Street Journal
`A cannot-put-it-down book,`-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
`Extremely funny, no-nonsense, and insightful.`-New York Times Book Review
`Hilarious.... Waiter Rant is as delightful as it is irreverent.` -Washington Post Book World
A seminary dropout-cum-mental-health-care worker, THE WAITER, STEVE DUBLANICA, waited his first table at age thirty-one. In 2004, he started his wildly popular blog, Waiter Rant.net, eventually winning the 2006 Bloggie Award for Best Writing of a We He has been interviewed by media outlets nation wide, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today, as a voice for many of the two million waiters in the United States. The Waiter lives in the New York metropolitan area with his joint-custody dog, Buster, and is at work on his second book.

Contents
Preface
1 Amici`s
2 The Sacred and the Profane
3 Fascists and Freshwater Ostrich
4 Waiter Jedi
5 Paupery
6 The Box of Chocolates Saint
7 Big Brother
8 The Back Alley of Affluence
9 The Tip`s the Thing
10 Why Be a Waiter?
11 A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
12 Filth
13 I Hate Mother`s Day
14 Vengeance Is Mine
15 Snapshots
16 Heaven and Hell
17 Substance Abuse
18 The Fourth of July
19 Russell Crowe and Me
20 If It Can Go Wrong, It Will
21 The Demons
22 Throwing in the Apron
Epilogue
Appendixes:
A 40 Tips on How to Be a Good Customer
B 80 Ways to Tell You`re Working in a Bad Restaurant
C Items a Waiter Should Carry at All Times (or Have Close By)


Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Humor, Drink