No waiting around for David Hayden’s book on earning bigger tips

If all servers in Kansas City took their profession as seriously as David Hayden — waiter, blogger, consultant — the local restaurant scene would be a very different place. Hayden is a career waiter, an occupation that once garnered more respect than it does now. (In Europe, a veteran waiter is a prized employee; in Kansas City, they’re lucky to find jobs.) Fat City reported last March that Hayden had left McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant on the Plaza to ply his craft at the Majestic Restaurant, 931 Broadway.

Tonight — from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. — Hayden will be working at the Majestic, but as a bookseller, not as a server. Hayden will be celebrating the release of his first book, Tips Squared: Tips for Improving Your Tips in the Pendergast Club, the third-floor cigar club in the historic Majestic Restaurant building.