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Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally entitled Q&A, Vikas Swarup's Slumdog Millionaire unfolds the story of Ram Thomas, an uneducated orphan from the slums of Mumbai, India. The story opens with authorities, unconvinced that a slumdog could answer all twelve questions correctly on India's biggest game show, Who Will Win a Billion?, holding Ram on suspicions of cheating. Enter Smita Shah, a lawyer bent on rescuing Ram. With Smita as his listener, Ram reveals how his life experiences...
4) The waiter
Author
Publisher
Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn uniform, the ragged but solid tablecloths, and the regular diners. Some are there daily, like Graham "Le Gris"--Also known as The Pig--and his dignified group of aesthetes; the slightly more free-spirited drinking company around Tom Sellers; and the closest one can get to personal friends of the waiter, Edgar...
5) Sacrificio
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 22 cm
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This series of fifteen books - The Food Service Professional Guide TO Series from the editors of the Food Service Professional magazine are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today. These step-by-step guides on a specific management subject range from finding a great site for your new restaurant to how to train your wait staff and literally everything in between. They are easy and fast-to-read, easy...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Millions of people have, at some point in their lives, waited tables. Some only did it in college, or got out by sheer determination, good luck . . . or suicide. Others took it on as permanent employment. And many remain haunted by nightmare scenarios where they are the sole server in a restaurant packed with complaining patrons. For all those disenchanted current and former food service employees, Darron Cardosa has your back. His career began at...
Publisher
House Lights Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a VP of a $30 billion hedge fund who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at Papa's Chicken and Waffles. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits, and who just might be the right mentor to help Jimmy realize his full potential.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Pocket Star Books paperback ed.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When a waiter at an organic eatery is found dead in the bathroom--apparently from a lightning strike--the staff believe his death is an act of God, punishment for straying from their spiritual philosophy. The only philosophy Horatio Crane believes in is justice for the victim.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Starbird has spent the first sixteen years of her life on a commune in the woods of Washington State. When she gets her Calling to become a waitress at the farm's satellite restaurant in Seattle, it means leaving behind the only place she's ever known and entering the World Outside"--
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, 13-year-old Molly must pretend to be eighteen and move from Illinois to Raton, New Mexico to earn a living as a Harvey Girl, one of the waitresses who worked at Harvey House restaurants along the railroads in the Southwest United States.
14) Albert Nobbs
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.