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Paul Hartford

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Born

Copenhagen, Denmark

Website

http://paulhartford.com

Twitter

https://twitter.com/Pauli9641

Genre

Nonfiction, Memoir, Contemporary

Influences

Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, Anthony Bourdain, Hen ...more

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December 2014

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In order to become Hollywood's top Waiter to the Rich and Shameless, Paul “Pauli” Hartford had to abandon his long-haired rocker dude persona and double down on his dedication to five-star servitude. After several turbulent years at the top of his waiting game, Hartford comes clean in this daring confessional, dishing about everything from debauchery to deification at the Beverly Hills hot spot he's cleverly calling the “Cricket Room” to avoid being sued to hell and back.

Paul Hartford's work experience includes almost twenty years in the high-profile service industry, catering to topline clients in various exclusive establishments. Before his decade of service in the iconic Cricket Room, he worked in the executive dining room of a major Hol ...more

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"Waiter to the Rich and Shameless" is now available in Paperback published by Hillhurst Literary.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QXA0TX4

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Published on November 21, 2015 10:51 • Tags: beverly-hills, celebrity, hollywood, memoir, new-edition, new-release, pop-culture, rich-and-famous

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“It was entertaining to watch the dance play out in silence, through the glass, like an old silent movie. I’m sure many of those early movie stars drank and dined here. Maybe their ghosts even haunted the grounds and were at least partially responsible for luring me behind the walls.”
― Paul Hartford, Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server

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“Sometimes you start focusing on the strings rather than the marionettes, and suddenly the entire illusion is lost for you”
― Paul Hartford, Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server

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“A vice is a vice, a drunk is a drunk, no matter what the booze costs. You can be a useless piece of shit drinking high-end Scotch whiskey just as easily as you can drinking swill at a neighborhood dive. You just feel better about yourself.”
― Paul Hartford, Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server

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“They say the past always catches up with you, sooner or later. I prefer sooner, because by the time later rolls around, the past has picked up a lot of speed.”
― Dan Thompson, Ships of My Fathers

tags: past-and-present

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“It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.”
― John A. Ashley

tags: inspirational, living-in-the-moment, living-in-the-present, memories, nostalgia, past-and-future

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