Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paulal Granquist welcomes author Matthew Batt to share his new memoir The Last Supper Club: A Waiter’s Requiem. Discover how a “forty-something tenured professor found himself waiting tables at a high-end restaurant situated in a Minneapolis brewery. And loving it.”
Join Matthew Batt in conversation with author Benjamin Percy at Content Book Store on Thursday, November 16, 7pm, in-store and on Facebook Live.
The Last Supper Club: A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables. During a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money—fast—and it just so happened that one of the biggest breweries in the Midwest was launching a restaurant and looking to hire. So it was that the forty-something tenured professor found himself waiting tables at a high-end restaurant situated in a Minneapolis brewery. And loving it.
Telling the story of Batt’s early work in restaurants, from a red sauce joint possibly run by the mob to an ill-conceived fusion concept eatery, THE LAST SUPPER CLUB then details his experiences at the fine dining restaurant, a job that continued well past his sabbatical—that lasted, in fact, right up to the restaurant’s sudden and unceremonious closing three years later, shortly after it was named one of the best restaurants in the country by Food & Wine. Told with sharp humor, humility, and a keen sense of what matters, THE LAST SUPPER CLUB is an ode to life in a high-pressure restaurant, the relationships that get you to the night’s close, and finding yourself through—or perhaps because of—the chaos of it all.
