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Summary: "For years, Kim's day job was a social worker to the home-bound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. Then she'd scramble into Manhattan to make her hostess shifts at Babbo, where even the Pope would have trouble scoring a reservation, and Gwyneth Paltrow and RyanReynolds squeezed through the jam-packed entryway like everyone else. Despite her sometimes fifteen-hour days, Kim couldn't make ends meet, up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REED, KIM REEEvans, Mike
Summary: "While dreaming of an easier way to order pizza, Mike Evans founded the online food delivery site, Grubhub, in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar colossus that is now a household name. But it wasn't as easy as searching, clicking, and checking out. Mike's meteoric rise to the top of the booming tech and business world demanded a decade of 80 hour work weeks, endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 EVADamrosch, Phoebe
Summary: Damrosch, former waiter at the New York City restaurant Per Se, details her career as a waiter, describing the intimate workings of restaurant table service at its best. Tales of critics and celebrities spice up the memoir with a few tips on how to earn a waiter's respect sprinkled throughout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95092 DAMGibney, Michael.
Summary: An executive sous chef who has worked alongside cooks from some of the nation's leading restaurants documents an intense twenty-four-hour period that illuminates the allures and adversities of a professional culinary life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014