Waiter Rant, Steve Dublanica
Waiter Rant, Steve Dublanica
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Waiter Rant
Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

Bestseller

Author: Steve Dublanica

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/29/2008

Synopsis

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 really thrived. "The other shoe finally drops. The front-of-the-house version of Kitchen Confidential; a painfully funny, excruciatingly true-life account of the waiter’s life. As useful as it is entertaining. You will never look at your waiter the same way again–and will never tip less than 20%." --Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential "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 of The Waverly Inn

About Steve Dublanica

Steve Dublanica is the bestselling author of Waiter Rant, which spent twelve weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He lives in the New York metropolitan area with his joint-custody dog Buster.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on November 02, 2022

Hi, I'm Will. I'll be your reviewer today. Maybe to start I can point you to the author. Yes, the book is written anonymously. The author had for four years written a blog about his experience as a waiter in a New York restaurant and needed to preserve his anonymity in order to prevent mayhem at his......more

Goodreads review by Bill on September 05, 2019

I'm wary of books that start off as blogs. "Waiter Rant," however, turned out to be a pleasant surprise. I recognized many anecdotes from the original blog, but in almost every case the original has been refined and enriched. Walter Dublanica (known here as "the Waiter") does a good job of showing u......more

Goodreads review by Baba on May 05, 2025

Based on the blogging entries of a waiter this partially fictionalised(?) memoir recounts the life and times of waiter 'Steve', who spent most of his life waiting tables in high-end restaurants in New York. I found this one of those books that sounds a lot better than they actually are. A Two Star 5......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on August 18, 2008

The buzz surrounding this book likens it as a front of the house version of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. While superfically, they both concern themselves with working in a restaurant, that is where the similarities end. While Bourdain uses his mystery-noir style writing to tell a gripp......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on October 20, 2022

EDIT 10/20/2022: Please do tip higher than 15%!! I wrote this review 12 years ago and apologize for this bad take. My family and I eat out at least two times a week, so reading Waiter Rant was definitely an interesting experience. I'm almost convinced that if I tip under 15% that my waiter is going......more

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