Four Letter Word

The second sentence in the preface to my book Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip — Confessions of a Cynical Waiter contains a four-letter word. No, not the usual F-bomb or scatological epithet you’d expect from a harried, ill-tempered server about to drop a bolus...

NEWS FLASH!

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip – Confessions of a Cynical Waiter will spend another week on the New York Times Bestseller List. We even went up a notch! How cool is that?

Mental Image?

Since my identity’s been a closely guarded secret for years, I wasn’t surprised to learn that some Waiter Rant readers, independent of reality, developed their own mental image of what I looked like. Now that my face has been plastered all over the media, however,...

Washington Post Love!

Waiter Rant got a nice review in the Washington Post! How about that? My book was also favorably mentioned in the Malaysia Star, The Boston Globe, and Bloomberg.com! And if you were looking for the interview I did on the Walt Bodine Show in Kansas City – here it...

Broken Plane

It’s six in the evening and I’m stuck inside a hot and stuffy DC-9 flying above Illinois. After a quick layover in Indianapolis we’re heading for Kansas City. I’m scheduled to participate in “ORDER UP! Tales from the Dining Room,” a program sponsored by that city’s...