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Instead, she wrote about the unlikely friendship of Archie Jones, a middle-aged white man who folds paper for a living, and Samad Iqbal, a middle-aged Bengali waiter who folds napkins. Theirs is a relationship born of World War II, forged on a lie and nourished on the greasy eggs served at O'Connell's Pool House, which, by the way, is neither Irish nor a pool hall. In fact, nothing in their lives has turned out as it seemed it would...
...have the money; at the Union, they manage it; at the Algonquin, they’re trying to make it; and at the St. Botolph, they enjoy it.” The Chilton and Somerset are primarily social. Even discussing business in the morning room used to bring a waiter with a silver platter and a small card asking the offender to refrain. “Even now,” says Minturn, “flagrant displays of briefcases and papers, are frowned upon.” Cell phones are a cardinal sin. At the Algonquin, on the other...
Temple Bar should take some solace in the fact that it is not the first area restaurant to be the target of reckless discrimination accusations. Several years ago the African-American community orchestrated a boycott of Grendel's Den after a waiter allegedly mistreated a black patron. The reality was that the patron was the victim of poor service, not racism, but this didn't discourage Harvard's ethnic organizations from rallying the troops and trying to put the place out of business...
...Welcome to the City of N'Awlins," drawled a voice over the intercom. The friendliness and folksiness of this welcome was echoed by the many staff members shepherding us, including "King George," our king-size personal attendant; Stephan, our waiter; and Frank Carswell, a service attendant, who was persuaded by co-workers to sing for us at dinner (this also served to promote his upcoming...
...idea, as ever, is to make people feel that they have to have purposeless merchandise they do not want. In a restaurant, a waiter will giddily announce, "We have mahi-mahi!" A sensible person would say, "So what?" America says, "I'll take...