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My dad was a bartender that worked banquets. -- Marco Rubio
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. -- Anthony Bourdain
Sterling Maids clean up with some sexy fun.
-- Sahalie Blue
They also serve who only stand and wait. -- John Milton
Also usually employed one or more resident physicians, barbers, priests, painters, musicians, minstrels, secretaries and copyists, an astrologer, a jester, and a dwarf, besides pages and squires. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient. -- Agatha Christie
I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because I've always been afraid of dropping plates on customer's heads. -- Candace Kita
a flesh-and-blood waiter and therefore as rare in San Francisco as a flying horse, -- Christie Golden
I tried to hostess ... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked. -- Taylor Schilling
Quiet customers get served first. -- Jeremy Robert Johnson
Friend, the cleaning lady, the bank clerk. But be careful: -- Joel Dicker
By the boats in the harbor. What else would you like to know?" "You plan to keep him tomorrow night?" "I get thirty-six hours, once a month. That's 9:00 a.m. tomorrow until 9:00 p.m. Sunday. Do the math. It's not that complicated." The waiter pops in to -- John Grisham
Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room. -- Henny Youngman
Waiter: "Tea or coffee, gentlemen?" First customer: "I'll have tea." Second customer: "Me too - and be sure the glass is clean!" (WAITER EXITS, RETURNS) Waiter: "Two teas. Which one asked for the clean glass? -- Leo Rosten
Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar ... and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm. -- Thomas B. Griffith
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter. -- Sally Schneider
Not only serve the meal, they offer to cut the meat. -- Isabel Allende
Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen? -- Jose Andres
I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate? -- Lizzy Caplan
People never bothered to pay attention to those who served them. Waiters and drivers were the most invisible people in the world. -- Ayelet Waldman
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food. -- Hugh Casson
business of the house with guests. -- Lola Grace Stevens
There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience. -- Piper Perabo
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. -- Don Herold
First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ... ? Then you serve machines. -- John Brunner
I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry. -- Jon Favreau
Customer service. That is what it means. -- Jon Jones
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles
which is the way they help me. -- William J. Brennan
How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person. -- Austin Butler
Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day. -- Mickey Gilley
Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab. -- Rick Riordan
I worked in restaurants the first half of my life. -- Bradley Cooper
I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time. -- John Krasinski
Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled. -- Joe Bastianich
The restaurant industry is brutal. -- Rene Redzepi
I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna. -- Fleur East
My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly. -- Charles Dance
As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended. -- Michael Lewis
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor. -- Quentin Crisp
I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup. -- Chris Pine
All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities. -- Spalding Gray
My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. -- Melissa Rauch
Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations. -- Danny Meyer
with a cluster of other servants. -- Mary Balogh
What do hookers do on their nights off, type? -- Elayne Boosler
There are a lot of people who touch the customer. -- Roger Staubach
A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged. -- Derren Brown
What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day? -- John Di Lemme
In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists ... -- Calvin Trillin
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy. -- Anthony Bourdain
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. -- Richard Powers
chefs, the Guatemalans, sometimes -- Jonathan Kellerman
I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that. -- Judge Reinhold
I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City. -- Kim Dickens
When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day. -- Robert Herjavec
TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them. -- Edwin Lefevre
Then the butcher, the baker and the owner of a gift shop. -- Anonymous
It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public. -- Howard Schultz
what are you?" he asked. "I'm a waitress. -- Charlaine Harris
I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables. -- Langdon Winner
Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose. -- Doug Larson
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I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person. -- Judy Greer
Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept -- Graeme Simsion
paying the McDonalds' delivery boy. As -- Gary Daly
Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code. -- Steve Lohr
The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore. -- Kate Simon
Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands. -- James Beard
Foreign visitors ... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Lord, help me to wait upon my Master. Let me leave all idea of honour to the hour when thou thyself shalt honour me. May thy Holy Spirit make me a lowly and patient worker and waiter! -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it. -- Gillian Alexy
Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp. -- Charles Dickens
I bartended for a catering company for two or three years. -- Hank Azaria
So much depends on the constant cooperation of well-trained servants. Without it, the best bred of hostesses is placed at a disadvantage. -- Lucy Lethbridge
People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize. -- Danny Meyer
In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains. -- Drew Carey
You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry. -- Ryan Reynolds
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make. -- Eoin Colfer
In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space. -- David Sax
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king. -- Criss Jami
I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work. -- Kesha
If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller. -- Russell Crowe
French zombie chauffeur. -- Rick Riordan
Chef: Any cook who swears in French. -- Henry Beard
Screwdrivers, women who screw drivers. -- Paige Toon
Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead. -- Kevin Mccarthy
A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat. -- David Mitchell
Men who only live to eat. -- Juvenal
People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are. -- Michael Symon
I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer. -- Abbie Cobb
Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession. -- Tom Douglas
I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need. -- Jose Andres
I won't hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that's the honest truth. I don't think you know how it is until you've worked in a restaurant. -- Casey Neistat
A simple job for simple people. -- Curly Howard
You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant. -- David Rockwell
'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.' -- Ben Elliot
I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week without paying, and they would pay me a nominal amount of money to be there. -- Mike Birbiglia
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon! -- Christian Louboutin
