Waiter Quotes (18 quotes)

“A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: attention, discontent, disrespect, food-industry, food-service, inconsiderate, insecurity, king, labor, ordinary-people, restaurants, royalty, selfish, service, waiter, waitress

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“The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: amusing, confusion, effect, humour, service, waiter, zaphod-beeblebrox

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“His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.”
― Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo

tags: customer-service, retail, waiter

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“What was your first job title?
Waiter. It was at a showy opera festival in a barn in Oxfordshire. I did it for a whole summer and people would be so extraordinarily rude that it made me decide that I would never be rude in my life, specifically to people who were kind enough to serve things.”
― Tom Hiddleston

tags: actor, kindness, serving, tom-hiddleston, waiter

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“Look at your waiter's face. He knows. It's another reason to be polite to your waiter: he could save your life with a raised eyebrow or a sigh.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: be-nice, food, food-service, food-writing, restaurant, waiter

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“Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

tags: begin, commence, common, don-t-give-up, don-t-quit, don-t-wait, fail, failure, food-for-thought, gain, hard-work, israelmore-ayivor, never-give-up, quit, quitters, start, success, successful, wait, waiter, work, work-hard

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“One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.”
― Travis Jeremiah Dahnke, Write like no one is reading

tags: food, humor, restaurant, sarcastic, shoving, sirloin, thought, waiter

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“Waiter - there's a bigot in my soup.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

tags: bigot, soup, waiter

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“While the drinks may be complimentary at an open bar, the service isn't. Remember to tip the bartenders, waiters, and waitresses who are working hard to keep your experience enjoyable.”
― Jason Langella

tags: bartender, club, drinks, hospitality, open-bar, restaurant, waiter, waitress

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“Quitters and waiters have a varied beginning, but a similar ending. They don't win! Don't wait; don’t quit... Arise and shine with the light of passion right there in you!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

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“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: adage, advertisement, alliterations, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, babysitter, blog, blogging, book-writing, catch-lines, catchphrases, characters, chauffeur, cleaner, cook, creative-writing, driver, employees, essay, fact, gardener, inspirational, job, knowledge, labor, labour, live, maid, motivational, movie, movie-dialogue, novel-writing, philosophy, poor, poverty, proverbs, public-speaking, punchline, quotes, reality, reality-quotes, respect-for-others, rhetoric, rich, richness, salaried-class-people, script, script-writing, scriptwriting, servants, social-networking, speech, speechwriting, story, sweeper, tag-lines, truth, wage-earner, waiter, watchman, watchmen, wealth, wealthy, wisdom, work, workforce, workman, writing

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“Every time the waiter with the cheese platter comes by I take two or three cracker loads at a time. I give him a polite smile, hoping he can guess I once did his job and I know his feet hurt like pins are being driven through the heels. The expensive cheeses are salty and soft against the crispiness of the crackers, and I realize how hungry I am. How little I have been eating these past weeks. Perhaps the waiter can sense this too; he begins to make a beeline for me each time he comes from the kitchen with a new plate. Goat, blue, Brie. Soothingly thick and creamy in my throat.”
― Hannah Tunnicliffe, The Color of Tea

tags: cheeses, grace-miller, hungry, tastes, waiter

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“...everyone holding a check pad is an aspiring something-else.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

tags: ambitions, aspirations, dreams, goals, relatable, waiter, waitress, work

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“The only time a Girl asked me for a coffee was when she mistook me for a waiter.”
― Nitya Prakash

tags: coffee, god, waiter

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“Goddam it, whenever a person wants reassurance he tells a friend to think what he wants to be true. It's like asking a waiter what's good tonight.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: friendship, reassurance, waiter

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“I hold doors open for people and tip twenty percent. I would never be rude or condescend to anyone in the service industry trying to support a family on minimum wage. I don’t like these bullies running around treating decent people like dispensable cogs. These guys take a waiter or a schoolteacher and stand on their necks until they’re nearly suffocated.”
― Nick Drnaso, Sabrina

tags: earning-a-living, earning-money, earnings, minimum-wage, respect-quotes, respecting-others, schoolteacher, service-workers, waiter, waitress

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“Like royalty disguised in rags, those who live to serve undertake a higher calling which most folks overlook.”
― Criss Jami

tags: disguised, king, love, queen, restaurant, royalty, service, serving-others, waiter, waitress

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“Waitressing: [...] She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego. [...] She, on a soul level, had decided to commit a huge part of her life to serving people, to being kind and caring and wouldn't seek a lot of attention for it. The work was its own reward.”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

tags: service-to-others, serving-humanity, serving-others, serving-people, waiter, waiters, waitress, waitressing

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