Steve dublanica biography

About the author .
A seminary dropout-cum-mental-health-care worker, The Waiter, Steve Dublanica, waited his first table at age thirty-one.
Steve Dublanica, waited his first table at age thirty-one.

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Steve Dublanica

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A seminary dropout-cum-mental-health-care worker, The Waiter, Steve Dublanica, waited his first table at age thirty-one. In 2004, he started his wildly popular blog, Waiter Rant, eventually winning the 2006 Bloggie Award for Best Writing of a Weblog. He has been interviewed by media outlets nationwide, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today, as a voice for many of the two million waiters in the United States. The Waiter lives in the New York metropolitan area with his joint-custody dog, Buster, and is at work on his second book.

Series

Books:

Keep The Change, November 2010
Paperback
Waiter Rant, August 2009
Paperback

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I came across this book when it was still in its blog form, while it was being written by an anonymous New York waiter. Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip, Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica is, weirdly, the biography of a waiter who starts a blog about his life, gets a book deal out of it, and tries to juggle being a semi-professional waiter while trying to become a published writer.

In the first third of the book, Dublanica explains how he fell into being a waiter after a series of failed careers. His brother helps him get a job at a dysfunctional restaurant in New York. Like Kitchen Confidential, which exposed the dysfunctional and maladaptive behaviors at the back of the house, Waiter Rant does the same for the front of house. Having read both books, it’s a wonder that restaurants succeed at all. In the second third of the book, Steve begins his anonymous blog to bleed off some tension and to share the “war stories” that drew me to this book in the first place. Later, he gets and agent and starts shopping around his book proposal. Meanwhil

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Waiter Rant

The Waiter Rant home page as of 2008-10-03
Created by	Steve Dublanica
URL	http://www.waiterrant.net
Launched	April 2004

Waiter Rant is a weblog written by ex-waiter Steve Dublanica. In roughly bi-weekly installments, Dublanica wrote vignettes about the lives of wait staff and customers. Dublanica started the blog in 2004 and originally wrote anonymously as "The Waiter."

On July 29, 2008, the book Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, based on the blog, was published.^[1] The accompanying public relations, including TV appearances, meant that “The Waiter” had to give up his anonymity. The book spent five weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list in 2008.^[2]

The stories were originally about "The Bistro," a restaurant in the New York area where Dublanica worked for seven years through 2006.^[3]New York magazine later revealed that "The Bistro" is Lanterna Tuscan Bistro in Nyack, New York.^[4]

Later stories were about "Café Machiavelli." On July 19, 200