Frank Bruni: My Week as a Waiter

New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni spends a week waiting tables at the East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and discovers that it's hard, unpleasant work:

I learned that for servers in a restaurant as busy as the East Coast Grill, waiting tables isn't a job. It's a back-straining, brain-addling, sanity-rattling siege.

My Week as a Waiter - New York Times

Of course, the truly essential take on Bruni's experiment will soon be found, I confidently predict, at The Bruni Digest. (TBD tipped us yesterday about the upcoming article.)