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• Anthony Bourdain
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Waiter Stuff

• bitter waiter
• bitterwaitress.com
• Caution: Blonde Thinking
• Confessions of a Part-Time Waitress
• Don't Tip the Waiter
• Girl in the Weeds
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• Restaurant Gal
• Restaurant Rage
• Steakhouse Blues
• Stuck Serving
• The Insane Waiter
• The only slightly cranky waitress
• The Thairade
• The Waiter's Digest
• This Channel Is Chanel – formerly $10,000 After Tipout
• Waiter Confidential
• Waiter Extraordinaire
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• Waiternotes
• Waiting in Vegas
• Well Done Fillet

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So You Want to Be A Waiter

• Another recent “restaurant scandal” highlighted by Waiter Rant November 22, 2009
  I’ll leave Steve to outline the story: http://waiterrant.net/?p=1573
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• The story about Lehigh students arrested for refusal to pay service charge November 22, 2009
  My fellow WordPress blogger, Jonathan Turley has posted the story, a story that places like Waiter’s Rant have already covered: http://waiterrant.net/?p=1564 http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/19/lehigh-students-arrested-for-failing-to-leave-tip/#comment-92031 There are some interesting comments on both sites. I’ve added my own at the bottom on th […]
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• New milestone (with some edits) November 22, 2009
  I am now officially ahead of Waiter Rant in the Technorati rankings! Technorati is one of the most influential blog tracking sites. I used to be ranked about 110,000 1,110,000th overall while Waiter Rant was ranked about 40,000th. Now I’m at 25924th and Waiter Rant is  52836th. Plus, my authority has jumped from around 7 all the way [...]
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• The Wicked Wok Chinese Restaurant has NOT seen your cat November 22, 2009
  But how about my dog? (the fact that the sign isn’t real doesn’t make it any less funny)
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• Judge strikes down guns in bars and restaurant law in Tennessee November 21, 2009
  Nashville judge strikes down TN guns-in-bars law Sponsor says next bill won’t be vague By Clay Carey and Michael Cass • THE TENNESSEAN • November 21, 2009 “A Davidson County judge ruled Tennessee’s controversial guns-in-bars law unconstitutional at a Friday hearing, prompting the state senator who sponsored the legislation to say he will pu […]
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• Cookbook of the day – Cooking Under Cover November 21, 2009
  Cooking Under Cover: One Pot Wonders — A Treasury of Soups, Stews, Braises, and Casseroles Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (September 21, 1998) ISBN-10: 0395935210 ISBN-13: 978-0395935217 This book is exactly what it pretends to be – a compendium of soups, stews, braises and casseroles. It’s nice to have all of those categories in one place ins […]
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• Accomodating vegetarians November 20, 2009
  We’ve discussed vegetarianism (with admittedly broad strokes). Now we discuss how we at non-vegetarian restaurants accomodate those with vegetarian needs. The first think that a waiter should do is have a strategy in his or her back pocket. Most restaurants can accomodate vegetarians even if they don’t explicitly provide for them on the menu. I […]
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• In recession, Vegas eateries can’t beat odds – from Newser November 20, 2009
  From mid-summer: By Jason Farago| Posted Jul 15, 09 6:14 AM CDT “(Newser) – Just a year ago, 25% of the country’s highest-grossing restaurants were in Las Vegas—where diners ran up $15,000 checks and tipped waiters with wads of C-notes. But now restaurants are closing, new construction languishes half-finished, and more than 5,000 food industry w […]
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• Vegetarians November 20, 2009
  Vegetarians fall into different categories. The strictest is the vegan movement. Partly political, partly dietary and partly a moral system, this food philosophy forbids the consumption of any animal products, animal by-products and food processed with animal products (the use of fish bladders or egg whites in the fining of wine, for instance). A true vegan […]
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• Vegetarian? November 19, 2009
  Waiters are often confronted with the issue of vegetarianism. I’m sure the term “issue” would be considered a pejorative term by vegetarians of all stripes. And I sympathize. But it’s the “all stripes” part that makes it an “issue”. So, let’s stipulate that I’m not calling vegetarianism itself the i […]
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Recent Posts

• Another recent “restaurant scandal” highlighted by Waiter Rant
• The story about Lehigh students arrested for refusal to pay service charge
• New milestone (with some edits)
• The Wicked Wok Chinese Restaurant has NOT seen your cat
• Judge strikes down guns in bars and restaurant law in Tennessee

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