Tipped Off and Other Server Stories

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

After the first couple of former servers got up to tell their tales at the Central Library’s “Tipped Off!” event on Monday night, what was billed as a “showcase of prepared spoken-word performances by local writers in the restaurant trade” started sounding more like a 12 Step Meeting.

Waiters Anonymous?

But most of the monologues – performed by yours truly, as well as my Pitch colleague Lorna Perry, actor-playwright David Wayne Reed, Present magazine’s Pete Dulin, Kansas City Public Library’s Kaite Stover and perpetual curmudgeon John Hastings — were upbeat and funny.