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The Waiter's Restaurant is an Italian restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, described as a "Melbourne institution". [1] Founded in 1947 as the Italian Waiter's Club, it was initially a place for waiters (mainly of Italian and Spanish heritage) to have a meal, a drink and play cards after their work - in breach of the very strict liquor licensing laws in place at the time.
In 1978, while Read was incarcerated, his associate Amos Atkinson held 30 people hostage at The Waiters Restaurant in Melbourne while demanding Read's release. After shots were fired, the siege was lifted when Atkinson's mother, in her dressing gown, arrived at the restaurant to act as go-between.
David Frank Andrews (born 20 May 1951) is an Australian Christian anarchist author, speaker, social activist, community worker, and a founder of the Waiters' Union, an inner city Christian community network working with Aboriginals, refugees and people with disabilities in Brisbane, Australia. [1]
Mietta O'Donnell (6 January 1950 – 4 January 2001) [1] was a Melbourne-based Australian restaurateur, chef and food writer, described in her later years as Australia's leading culinary publisher and critic. [2] She was also a noted arts and music patron, and a song competition is named in her honour.
Luke William Mangan OAM (born 6 May 1970) is an Australian chef and restaurateur.. Mangan owns and operates restaurants in Sydney Australia, at sea on P&O cruise ships, recently partnered with Mater Private Hospital Brisbane to bring health, quality restaurant food to hospitals.
Brian Maixner, a waiter at the Doo-Dah Diner in Wichita, Kansas was the lucky recipient of that incredible tip. For a lot of servers in the restaurant business a 20-percent tip is a good one. A ...
John Martin Armiger (10 June 1949 – 27 November 2019) [2] was an Australian musician, record producer and composer. He was one of the singer-songwriters and guitarists with Melbourne-based rock band the Sports from August 1978 to late 1981, which had Top 30 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart with, "Don't Throw Stones" (1979), "Strangers on a Train" (1980) and "How Come" (1981); and ...
After six years of teaching he decided to quit to pursue his passion for acting. He got a job as a waiter in 1985 at a Melbourne theatre restaurant, The Last Laugh. It discovered comedians and performers such as Lynda Gibson, Jane Turner, Peter Moon, Richard Stubbs. [2]