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Waiter Rant
Personal blog · waiterrant.netculturecareer
Waiter Rant is a personal blog at waiterrant.net about culture and career. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Waiter Rant, a blog by a restaurant waiter about service work, tipping and restaurant economics. One commenter lists it among favourite web reads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
DO YOU WANT POMMES FRITES WITH THAT?
What Hacker News says?
I loved the article, but I also came across a gem of a quote in the comments ( http://waiterrant.net/?p=450#comment-323693 ): Security to me seems like another name for a slow death, where every opportunity for greatness is ignored for fear's sake.
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on “The Only Way is the Wrong Way”Submitted The Only Way is the Wrong Way as a story · 36 points
HN discussionOne of the things which definitely improve online tipping is making it clear what it will be used for. Making it easier and more visible also helps. This leads to the question if online tipping is a luxury good. Tipping in restaurants for instance is so ingrained both socially and because the staff need the money that tips may be squeezed in an economic downturn (see http://waiterrant.net/?p=436 ), but they will hol…
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on “TipJoy’s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors ”http://www.boingboing.net http://www.waiterrant.net http://www.offthebroiler.com (though it really went downhill when the author started trying to eat healthily)
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on “What are your favorite reads in the web? (Besides HN)”
