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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D
by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
This was a fascinating look at the restaurant industry. I found the start very slow as I just didn't care about the author's early years, I almost Dnfed but kept going. But once he began working in the industry is when it really picked up. As it takes place in NYC he comes into contact with many celebrities and other well known business types (Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie, Billy Joel 10% tipper, interview with Ivana Trump, con artist Anna Sorkin). Many of the stories were hilarious and some quite sad. He touches on how many friends and coworkers were lost to the AIDs epidemic. But if his book is to believed, your servers are either drunk or high (or both) throughout your service and quite possibly having sex in the bathroom or outside in between tables.