by waiter | Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s Tuesday and I’m in Home Depot looking for a Torx screwdriver. The reason I need such a device is to tighten the pivot screw on a pocketknife I purchased over the Internet. For what I paid for it, the knife should have come perfectly tuned. But such is life....
by waiter | Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hi everybody. I’m not dead. But I’ve been very busy wrapping up my next book and that’s been consuming ALL my time. When it’s all over I’ll probably go to a desert island where they’ve never heard of tipping and sleep for two...
by waiter | Feb 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Please answer the following question in the comments section. “When you think of bad tippers, what brand of car comes to mind?” List the brand of the car fIrst, followed by your reasons for saying so. This should be interesting!
by waiter | Jan 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s Tuesday night and I’m hungry again. But this time my larder’s stocked with food and the pickings are bountiful. I throw some rice, water, pignoli nuts and a bay leaf into my roommate’s rice cooker and turn it on. Then I break out some pork chops, trim away the...
by waiter | Jan 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s a crisp winter’s night and I’m strolling though Union Square in Lower Manhattan. I’m supposed to be meeting a friend for dinner but when she texts to say she’s running late I suddenly discover I’ve got forty-five minutes to kill. So I duck into a cigar shop,...
by waiter | Jan 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s Tuesday night and I’ve given up wrestling with words for the day. I’m tired and hungry. I toy with the idea of picking something up from a local restaurant but that costs money. So I decide to cook something for myself. Before indulging in any culinary...
by waiter | Jan 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s a cold Thursday afternoon and I’m at the gun range. But this time my usual shooting buddy isn’t with me. There’ll be no good-natured banter. No burgers and beers afterwards. I’m here to learn how to kill. “Ready?” the instructor, an old ex-marine, asks. A small...
by waiter | Nov 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’ve ever worked for tips you’ve probably formulated your own, albeit unscientific, conclusions about what kinds of people are bad tippers. Women? Doctors? Wall Street Guys? Republicans? Democrats? Country Club Wasps? African Americans? Latinos? Rich...
by waiter | Nov 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
There was a recent post on Gawker featuring an email written by Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of Paradou, a restaurant in the Meatpacking district, taking his employees to task for not collecting email addresses from his patrons so he could add them to some kind of...
by waiter | Nov 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
After getting hundreds of emails from readers about a couple in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania who got arrested for not leaving a tip I decided I had better say something about it. The first thing everyone should realize is there’s a difference between a “service...
