Thanks Marco. I really enjoyed that article.
As a former waiter, I liked how he touched upon the totally arbitrary nature of the size of the tips.

I remember one day at Chili's I had a delightful customer who left a sub-par tip. I remember wishing that money had never come into the relationship, because I really liked the woman up until she left a shitty tip.

lorelei is going to love this article. i once ordered an item from hell during a non-hell night and the waiter told me I really shouldn't and warned me and then when the food came asked if he could sit and watch me eat it. I'm a little disappointed to find out that was sort of scripted.

I always feel bad for waiters because they're relying on my generosity to pay their rent and I'm a bad person. Never trust people you don't know to give you lots of money, most of us are jerks.

Also, SoCa? What is that supposed to be? Since when did you get to make up neighborhoods? And how are you defining it?
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Actually, it's not so bad, assuming you mean SoCa to be everything East and South of Harvard (with NoCa everything West and North). South of Cambridge Street is bad - there's practically nothing north to speak of within city limits. No other street works well that I can see. And this is still problematic because East Cambridge is due east of the region I'm guessing you're outlining. Not that there isn't precedent for this with boston's neighborhoods, but honestly, you'd better start justifying.

Or is this what Area 4 decided to name itself?

or are you perhaps associating that area of cambridge with soca music?

Don't be boxed in by the NoHo/SoHo approach -- I meant Somerville/Cambridge.

See, I was thinking like that but for some reason neglected to put Somerville first. typical, i suppose.

And I was actually thinking more of SoCal

Jon is CORRECT. Although I think that restaurant is more upscale than mine, and therefore would be harder to work at. Our cooks probably don't even know what monkfish is.

As a former waiter, I liked how he touched upon the totally arbitrary nature of the size of the tips.

Yessss. There are a bunch of complicated factors that go into how well a person tips, only some of which are under my control. As a result, I've developed a near-superstitious attitude about how I look at work.

Waiter Rant linked this article, so now almost every computer-literate waiter in America has read it. :}

It's not SoCa. The only appropriate names are "Little Brookline" or "Area 4.0."

Brian

Woah, I signed my name there like it was an email. I must not have been paying attention.

he has revealed himself!
kudos for bringing back "little brookline" - i miss those jews. except, ya know, for the crazy ones.