Waiters and restaurateurs are forever tipping off the press so that when Cheung tries to leave a restaurant, a phalanx is waiting for her.
饭馆的侍应生和老板总会向媒体告密，所以每当张曼玉离开饭馆时，总有一群人在等候着她。Just for your info, the Peking Duck seems to be having a promotion at only $30. So remember to ask the server if the promotion is still on.
还有，找食趣要和你们分享好东西，北京烤鸭好像在搞促销，$30一只烤鸭。记得和侍应生确认喔。The other possible reason I left empty-handed after each function was that I was the worst waiter in the hotel, or possibly in the world.
另一个可能是因为我是酒店最差的侍应生，可能是世界上最差的；所以在每次宴会结束后，我都是两手空空。It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
人生还不至于像侍应生看得那么严肃，是一件好事情。I could have done, in my waitering days, with some of the methods that, US researchers have found, make customers more likely to tip.
美国研究者已经发现了一些更能让顾客付小费的方法。我真该在作侍应生的时候用上这些招数。She gave me this look as if I were crazy, and when the waiter came she ordered fish -- for a lot more than $8.
她看我的眼神就彷佛我疯了一样，侍应生过来后，她点了鱼，这可比8美元要贵多了。Barmaid: (Takes off apron and throws it at him) Yeah, we're hiring! You can take my job and shove it, loser!
酒吧女侍应生：（除下围裙并掷向他）对，我们会请人！你可以取代我的工作，滚开，失败者！Helen did not straight home after school. She went to work as a waitress in a restaurant.
海伦并没有在放学后直接回家。她去餐厅以侍应生的身份打工。The Italian restaurant that my friends stole cash from as waiters is now Moghul, one of the most famous Indian restaurants in the country.
而那家意大利餐厅（我朋友在那当侍应生的时候从店里偷过钱），现在却摇身一变成了全国最著名的印度餐馆之一——莫卧儿餐厅。