The Waiter Rant

This is a book that is written by a guy who has spent years waitering. He started out talking about his experiences on a blog, waiterrant.com, or something that is still going as far as I know and this is a compilation of some of his posts. I was interested to read it as I've been a waitress and my roomate is waitressing right now so I know both sides of the story here.

I was rather dissappointed though by the book. Number one the guy repeats himself and some well known beliefs easily 4 or 5 times throughout the book. I understand that waitering is a very hard business and alot of times they aren't respected and it's one of the only jobs where they really don't get paid anything but their tips, but I felt like he almost kept putting himself up on a soapbox because he was willing to do this while also calling himself a loser every 5 pages becuase here he was a 30's age guy who was still waitering. Some of the stories were good and funny to read. There were def parts that I could relate to and laugh at, but overall I was annoyed with this guy. I feel like maybe his blog might be better because it wouldn't be him imagining himself as a waiter so much as just him writing what happened that day at work. I do believe his worst problem was that he kept imagining that this book would be the thing that got him out of his rut in the service industry when in essence he is not that good of a writer and his thoughts are not interesting. His stories are what were interesting and they got lost in all his ramblings.

I would suggest check out the blog rather than the book if you want a laugh, and man, get a better editor cause your book sucked.