TRENDY READING
A Year in Waiting By Nicholas D. Butler Nick Butler was no stranger to the world of waiting tables and working in different facets of the restaurant industry. A well-educated gentleman who eventually earned his PhD, he believed his scholastic career would center around education. But then he made the “mistake” of failing two football scholarship students whose decided not to attend his classes anymore. Mr. Butler’s world came undone. In this extraordinary and well-documented story, we find a man who is with odds with about everything in his life. His decision to enter the world of service/hospitality was a difficult, yet necessary, design to make ends meet. The result is a magnificent tale of the inner workings of a restaurant from the vantage point of a tremendous server at a very high-end eatery. While most of us take everything in the restaurant industry for granted, after you finish this well-crafted book, you will not. It serves as a fantastic inside look from the front of the house to the back of it and everything in between. Nick Butler has done the world a great service with his educated and gifted pen. He documents resonating memories of one year in the service industry recognizing its pitfalls and triumphs alike. The books serves as a labor of love and so much more. By the time you finish this you will likely have profound respect for everyone from the dishwashers and bussers to the chefs and proprietors of the establishments you choose to frequent. It’s an incredible journey.
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