Word: waitress
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...fine crust of a crème brûlée with a teaspoon. Home-schooled by neurotic, hugging-averse parents, she grows up painfully shy and enclosed in her own fantasy world. Unfortunately, her adult life doesn’t seem much better. She works as a waitress in a quintessentially Parisian café, where the regulars comprise a dysfunctional family of their own. But one day she discovers a box of toys in her apartment and resolves to find its owner. This sets her on a quest to improve the lives of her neighbors, which ranges from...
...reports of people bracing for a terrorist attack [AMERICA ON GUARD, Oct. 8]: A waitress at my local diner had a Middle Eastern man escorted out because he made her uncomfortable. Listening to the radio, I heard a woman say she is going to buy an expensive couch because it's the only way she knows how to help the country. I believe the U.S. has become a nation of idiots. Gas masks won't help, nor will flying that American flag you just bought. We must concentrate on peace, love and equality. STELLA BLUE Chicago...
...WIRELESS WAITRESS...
Their simple lives contrast sharply with the multimillion-dollar rumors surrounding Osama bin Laden. If they were doing his bidding, they weren't living large on his dime. Donna Cooper, 43, a waitress at the Denny's on South Federal Highway in Delray Beach, remembers Atta coming in several times to have a veggie cheese omelet and coffee. His friend Al-Shehhi had only Minute Maid orange juice. "I've constantly re-searched my brain to see if there was something I missed about them, something that I should have told somebody about," says Cooper. "I know there wasn...
...needs before they arise. "To me, staff who delight and surprise the unsuspecting guest are not only providing exceptional service at work, they're likely to carry that behavior into their personal lives," says Terpilowski. He notes that he's inclined to leave a better tip for the amiable waitress who goes out of her way to do something unexpected than for the one who provides good service but does nothing to create a memorable dining experience...