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Book Review of Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress

Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
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I loved this book!!! Part memoir, part social comentary, part guide to how to behave when dining out, Debra Ginsberg's book takes readers on her twenty-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.