“New York is full of waiters, Chinese, American, Congo, French, Italian and German waiters, Jewish and Christian waiters, Vegetarian and Greek waiters, many good waiters, many bad waiters.”

Above you will see Bemelmans’ drawing of a waiter on a 1943 cover of THE NEW YORKER.

Read A Word on New York Waiters<br>(Stage Magazine, 1939) for Free

essay about New York waiters1930s article concerning waiters in NYCcolorful and not so colorful waiters of NYCauthor Ludwig Bemelmans sounds-off on NY waiters 1939article by illustrator Ludwig BemelmansLudwig Bemelmans understood restaurants and wailters
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