Pilfered cocktails.
Sex in areas normally reserved for vegetables.
Gossip and backstabbing among the staff and management.
It's just another shift at Roulette, where every guest is a crisis waiting
to happen and the rules change like le poisson du jour. Meet Erin Edwards, an up-and-coming marketing exec who frequents Manhattan's hippest eateries – until the tables are turned. Downsized from her boutique firm, Erin panics as she watches her career plunge into freefall. Why else would the savvy twenty-eight year-old take a job as a waitress? A favorable word from a family friend gets Erin in the door at Roulette, Madison Avenue's newest exclusive haunt, and home to a celebrity chef with a talent for cutting-edge cuisine and spotting the weakest link.   Life behind the apron is even worse than she imagined – from mangling orders to overimbibing at a wine seminar, Erin finds herself in hot water with the egomaniacal chef and the owner's outrageous wife. Then there's the surly clientele – all but Daniel Fratelli, a flirtatious TV news producer with an uptown girlfriend and an exclusive social circle that doesn't admit waitresses.   Determined to prove she won't crack under pressure, Erin begins to master the art of service by becoming part shrink, part slave, and part foie gras hustler. Forced to prove her commitment through a series of exhausting and dangerous tasks, Erin wonders if she'll ever make it back to the real world. But with a little help from her quirky best friend, she comes up with an idea that might take her life in a whole new direction – and that's just the first course...