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A restaurant critic spends a week as a waiter<\/a>, and learns a lot about the other side of the table, including (as stated by a regular waitstaffer), “Some people are interested in having the experience of being disappointed.”<\/p>\n

(via kottke<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Waiterrants comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A restaurant critic spends a week as a waiter, and learns a lot about the other side of the table, including (as stated by a regular waitstaffer), “Some people are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13029,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/book_review_waiter_rant.html","url_meta":{"origin":9200,"position":0},"title":"Book Review: Waiter Rant","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Aug-08 9:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Another blog-to-book deal, \"The Waiter\" mixes autobiographical angst with an unflattering look at what life is like behind the order pad at a nice New York restaurant. 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