I strongly believe working in a restaurant should be a character-building requirement. When chatting with friends who are fellow servers, some joked that the top thing they wished customers would stop ...
When you've been a server in an Italian restaurant, as I have, and when you're Italian-American, as I am, you wind up having strong opinions in the realm of dining out. Did I ask for these opinions?
Mary Anne Porto Mary Porto is an editor at Punch. Previously, she was the associate editor at Girls’ Night In, and her work has been featured in Lux Magazine and Study Hall. She lives in Brooklyn.