Description:
Debra Ginsberg takes readers on an intimate and often hilariousjourney of her 20 years as a waitress at the dingiest of diners, a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star supper club and other fine and not-so-fine dining establishments. While chronicling her parallel evolution as a writer and single mother, she also takes a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life (revealing that yeas, when pushed, a server will spit in food and no, that's not really decaf you're getting) and at how most people in the business are in a constant state of waiting to do something else. Witty, poignant and often irreverent, this book reveals what goes on on the other side of the table as well as truths about human nature, the frightening things that go on in the kitchen and all of the frustrating and funny moments in this life.
