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1) The Feast
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
An affluent family gathers at their lavish home in the Welsh mountains for a dinner party, hosting a local businessman and neighboring farmer to broker a business deal to mine the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress for the evening, they find their beliefs and values challenged, as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives - slowly, deliberately, and with the most terrifying...
3) Sacrificio
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan from the provinces, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and no clue what his future will be or what he stands for (he doesn't even know his age-seventeen? eighteen?). He falls into a job as a waiter in a tiny makeshift tourist restaurant that the resilient, middle-aged Cecilia has created out of her backyard patio. Rafa is soon drawn into a web of bizarre, ever-shifting entanglements, first with Cecilia's older son...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Tommy Dees is in the weeds--restaurant speak for beyond overwhelmed. He's been working as a server at Sunset Estates retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best culinary schools in the world. And to make his application shine, he also needs a letter of recommendation from his sadistic manager. But in exchange for the letter, Tommy has to meet three conditions--including training the new hire. What he doesn't expect...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light. A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world--and right into its glorious...
6) The waitress
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Jenna is unhappily married. She squirrels away money and is hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant and her plans are thrown awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with her fellow waitresses, Dawn and Becky. She, also, finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town....
7) Servers
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
""Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces servers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Do you like to eat different foods? Maybe you like to help in the kitchen by cooking or bringing food to the table. Running restaurants large and small is no easy task as you will discover when you go On The Job in a Restaurant."--Provided by publisher.
10) The waiter
Author
Description
"In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged waiter takes pride in the unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn uniform, the ragged but solid tablecloths, and the regular diners. Some are there daily, like Graham "Le Gris"--also known as The Pig--and his dignified group of aesthetes; the slightly more free-spirited drinking company around Tom Sellers; and the closest one can get to personal friends of the waiter, Edgar...
11) Q & A: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Description
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapeño pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--
13) The gossip file
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 3
Formats
Description
Rachel Lee has looked forward to relaxing for two weeks at a Florida resort with her father, but when his girlfriend asks her to help in a cafe, Rachel adopts a "cool" new persona, Ava, to fit in with her older co-workers, until they ask her to help with their Gossip File.
14) Penguin suit
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Pancho begins a new job as a waiter at the Emperor Room seafood restaurant, but not without facing some difficulties. Includes facts about penguins.
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a cater-waiter who's a hopeless romantic flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy"--
Their families have been in business together for years: Quinn Berkowitz’s parents are wedding planners (she's the harpist), and Tarek’ Mansour's own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling...
16) Servers
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Who brings us food at restaurants? Servers! In a busy restaurant, servers keep everything moving from bringing food to helping guests. Read all about these community helpers"--
17) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the United States to visit the West. They ate at Harvey Houses, where thousands of well-trained waitresses provided first-class service. [This novel] tells the first-person story of one spunky girl, Kitty Evans, as she faces the often funny and painful experiences she and fellow waitresses Cordelia and Emmy endure"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Back to life volume 2
Publisher
Urban Renaissance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Having finally found good men, cousins Dakota and Breelyn are sidelined when tragedy strikes while Rah realizes he can't make it through a difficult time without the woman he loves, in the second novel of the urban romance series.
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