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	• Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress Debra Ginsberg Harper Paperbacks, 2001 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 117 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Rare and Entertaining Insight

WAITING is more than the chronicle some other reviewers make it out to be; more than a mere narrative of twenty years spent waiting tables. It's a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the restaurant business, from the perspective of the floor, of the people who come into direct contact with restaurant patrons.

In keeping with the backdrop, it does contain anecdotes about the business, insights into the personalities who bring food to the table, and even tips on how to be a better customer (and avoid possible retribution). I worked as a chef for several years and enjoyed reading Ginsberg's perspective from the other side of the pick-up window. I particularly liked her character descriptions.

But WAITING is a memoir in every sense of the word. Ginsberg talks of early loves, motherhood, and career ambitions. Although waiting tables is viewed by most people, waitresses included, as a temporary job rather than a career, as interim work when nothing better is available, Ginsberg views the activity as fulfilling in its own right. The title of the book is intentionally ambiguous.

As other reviewers have suggested, WAITING is a great complement to Anthony Bourdain's KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL. True, their writing styles are different; Ginsberg's is clean and comfortable. She's a natural story teller.

I couldn't put the book down. It reveals a slice of American life and culture that should interest everyone.

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Awesome Book!

One of my all-time faves! Everyone should read this-if you're in the service industry, then you can relate and if you're not, then you'll get an idea of what its like to be in the service industry!

sort of ok

Sort of ok, sort of boring, sort of repetitive...too much energy put into too little substance. She never seems to have worked in a really upscale restaurant, either.

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Waiting review

Overall good book. Wish she would have written a little more about actual waiting situations but, it was still worth it for the couple situations she did write about.

Great for Fellow Waitresses!

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who's worked in a restaurant, particularly as a waitress. The level to which you can relate to Ginsberg's stories is unbelievable comical. Love it!

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A veteran waitress dishes up a spicy and robust account of life as it really exists behind kitchen doors.

Part memoir, part social commentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out, Debra Ginsberg's book takes readers on her twentyyear 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.

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