TY - BOOK ID - 77860746 TI - Hey, waitress! : the USA from the other side of the tray PY - 2002 SN - 9786612357558 1597346527 052093122X 1282357557 9780520931220 1417508396 9781417508396 0520242246 9780520242241 9781597346528 9780520217508 0520217500 0520217500 9781282357556 661235755X PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Waitresses KW - Food service KW - Cookery for institutions KW - Cooking for institutions KW - Institutional cooking KW - Mass feeding KW - Volume feeding KW - Hospitality industry KW - Quantity cooking KW - Food service employees KW - Waiters KW - E-books KW - academic. KW - career. KW - civil rights. KW - college student. KW - daily life. KW - day to day. KW - discrimination. KW - essential workers. KW - finance. KW - housewife. KW - interview. KW - native american. KW - north carolina. KW - pizza hut. KW - restaurant industry. KW - restaurant workers. KW - scholarly. KW - service workers. KW - staten island. KW - stereotypes. KW - true story. KW - waiter. KW - waitress. KW - work. KW - workplace. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77860746 AB - Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate, illuminating, and often shocking behind-the-scenes stories of waitresses' daily shifts and daily lives. Alison Owings traveled the country-from border to border and coast to coast-to hear firsthand what waitresses think about their lives, their work, and their world. Part journalism and part oral history, Hey, Waitress! introduces an eclectic cast of characters: a ninety-five-year-old Baltimore woman who may have been the oldest living waitress, a Staten Island firebrand laboring at a Pizza Hut, a well-to-do runaway housewife, a Native American proud of her financial independence, a college student loving her diner more than her studies, a Cajun grandmother of twenty-two, and many others. The book also offers vivid slices of American history. The stories describe the famous sit-in at the Woolworth's counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, which helped spark the civil rights movement; early struggles for waitress unions; and battles against sexually discriminatory hiring in restaurants. A superb and accessible means of breaking down stereotypes, this book reveals American waitresses in all their complexity and individuality, and will surely change the way we order, tip, and, most of all, behave in restaurants. ER -