Career Waiters

The LA Times has a fun article that profiles four career waiters: Manny, who "has a smile as big as an iceberg wedge, wire-rim glasses and a Felix the Cat pin on his lapel"; Pablo, who says the most important thing is to return to the table within two to three minutes after the food has been served; Sergio, who says, ""My job is to take care of customers, to be polite, attentive and be seen at the table without making a lot of it"; and Vladimir, who grew up in Bratislava, in what was then Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia and is now Slovakia, wanting to see the world.