CINCINNATI, July 11, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Service workers of the world unite! Throw the trays laden with food into the faces of the ungrateful masses. Toss the price gun from aisle 5 through the grocery store window and claim retaliation on all the people who squeeze melons and put each egg in the carton through a battery of tests. This is Samuel J. Hunt's call to arms, his new book, Service Industry Manifesto (now available through 1stBooks).
Hunt, a veteran of the world of restaurant and sales employment, has written a book of solidarity for those who have dealt with customers every waking moment of their day. It is dedicated to all the strange and bizarre things that happen and all the customers who wonder in and out of businesses where hard-working employees take orders, stock shelves and cook, just trying to make a living. This book is for the 25 million still punching in and taking orders for the masses and those who have escaped to greener pastures, but still remember the stench of grease on their clothes or the way their backs ached after waiting tables all night.
"Service Industry Manifesto is nothing short of the answer to all of life's little questions. It is also a declaration of independence and change made by (me) on behalf of the 25 million people working in the service industry," Hunt says.
With a myriad of bad accounts and stories from workers of the industry, Hunt's book gives a voice to the bored shop girl or the overworked bus boy. He sheds light on the way they're treated, young and old, by the general public, the customer. Also, he exposes unfair and disproportioned work to pay scales, such as the way tip outs can rip off the employee, or the server's fear of living and dying by the tip.
Service Industry Manifesto is one voice screaming for recognition echoing in the economic wasteland of the largest sector of employees in America's economy. Hunt brings their complaints and his criticism together in a call to arms and a chant of solidarity.
A veteran of the industry since the age of 15, Hunt, now in his late 20s, has worked most of his professional life waiting hand and foot on the public. This book is the culmination of a year and a half of research and is the introduction to his newly found movement, Association of Service Professionals, Inc. (ASPI).
"The efforts of my research and occupation have driven me literally to having to hang my life on the balance of my next tip. Will I survive or will I have to declare bankruptcy?" Hunt writes.
This is his first book.
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