Waiting
Subtitle: the true confessions of a waitress
By: Debra Ginsberg
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: Perennial; HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780060932817; 9780060194796
Subjects: Waitresses; Biography
Description: "Part memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out, Debra Ginsberg's book takes readers on her twent-year journey as a waitress at a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, the dingiest of diners, and more. While chronicling her evolution as a writer, Ginsberg takes a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life--revealing that yes, when pushed, a server will spit in food, and, no, that's not really decaf you're getting--and how most people in this business are in a constant state of waiting to do something else" -- back cover.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: The luncheonette -- 1 -- 2.; title: Tipping (it's not a city in china) -- 23 -- 3.; title: The back of the house -- 45 -- 4.; title: Working the fantasy -- 69 -- 5.; title: The art of waiting -- 105 -- 6.; title: Molotov cocktail waitress -- 133 -- 7.; title: In the family way -- 159 -- 8.; title: A diner in california -- 189 -- 9.; title: Food and sex -- 211 -- 10.; title: "hello, i'll be your postfeminist icon this evening" -- 241 -- 11.; title: Still waiting-- 259.