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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Prick with a Fork : The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans
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'Kitchen Confidential meets He Died With a Felafel in His Hand in this laugh-out-loud hilarious expose of the restaurant industry.

'If a bad attitude could be subject to copyright, my ten years as a waiter would have left me obscenely wealthy. Working the floor, I was the Kerry Packer of passive aggression. Sullen insolence was my personal trademark, diligently honed and perfected over time. For a long list of perceived diner slights - ranging from ordering the tomato sauce separately to the fries, to calling me 'dear' - I could perform a Jekyll and Hyde switch into the most perfunctory, robotic and joyless server the world has ever seen. If I didn't like a group of people I would endeavour to do my very best to ensure that the only thing left of their night was a cold, dry husk. That I regularly used something I privately referred to as the 'Dead Eyes' should reveal plenty.

'Before she was one of Australia's top restaurant critics, Larissa Dubecki was one of its worst waitresses. A loving homage to her ten-year reign of dining-room terror, Prick With a Fork takes you where a diner should never go. From the crappiest suburban Italian to the hottest place in town, what goes on behind the scenes is rarely less fraught than the seventh circle of hell. Psychopathic chefs, lecherous owners, impossible demands and insufferable customers are just the start of an average shift.

'Therapy for former waiters, a revelation to diners, and pure reading pleasure for anyone interested in what really happens out the back of the restaurant, Prick With a Fork is an hilarious and horrific dissection of the restaurant industry, combining the gritty take-no-prisoners attack of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential with the gross confessions and forensic grunge of John Birmingham's He Died with a Felafel in His Hand. (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2015 .
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      Extent: 312p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2015
      ISBN: 9781925266054

Works about this Work

Review : Prick with a Fork Maryanne Vagg , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , December/January 2015-2016;

— Review of Prick with a Fork : The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans Larissa Dubecki , 2015 single work autobiography
Behind the Scenes of the Waiting Game Thuy On , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 September 2015; (p. 13)

— Review of Prick with a Fork : The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans Larissa Dubecki , 2015 single work autobiography
A Serve of Satire with Plenty of Afters Dianne Dempsey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 September 2015; (p. 30) The Age , 12 September 2015; (p. 30)

— Review of Prick with a Fork : The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans Larissa Dubecki , 2015 single work autobiography
A Serve of Satire with Plenty of Afters Dianne Dempsey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 September 2015; (p. 30) The Age , 12 September 2015; (p. 30)

— Review of Prick with a Fork : The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans Larissa Dubecki , 2015 single work autobiography
Behind the Scenes of the Waiting Game Thuy On , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 September 2015; (p. 13)

— Review of Prick with a Fork : The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans Larissa Dubecki , 2015 single work autobiography
Review : Prick with a Fork Maryanne Vagg , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , December/January 2015-2016;

— Review of Prick with a Fork : The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans Larissa Dubecki , 2015 single work autobiography
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