It seems obvious that most "professional" movie reviewers never worked in the service industry. This movie captures the quirks of food service. The inside jokes and the ridiculous customers they have to deal with. It's a fun film.

Yes it was funny. Yes it was entertaining. That being said, it reminded me of 2 broke girls and Empire Records.

The theme is employees of a business put up with behind the scenes problems and nuisances but if needing the job somehow pull through and continue to collect their pay. The hit Hollywood movie IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME 1949 and the hit British situation comedy ARE YOU BEING SERVED 1975 through 1975-82 are prime examples of this genre at its finest. WAITING 2005 is a Hollywood comedy which fictionalizes the problems behind the scenes of employees at a chain restaurant which for some reason is visualized by the photographer and editor as resembling many branches of the real Applebees chain. The movie focus on crude humor melded to public male nudity. What seems fascinating is the prediction in this well made and edited film of the general historic failure to soon follow of branches of chain restaurants as more and more emigres to American urban centers in which chain restaurants often focus their branches recently relocated from more rural areas of low population density. If not in fact today frankly preferring takeout when this is a local option they otherwise prefer the food court in which the customers line up at the counter of the particular takeout they prefer at that hour to be invited if they prefer to consume their meal at tables within the facility but not managed by the counter staff at which they order their food.In retrospect this level of chain restaurant branch which once flourished in neighborhoods in which the local patrons preferred to regularly visit these establishments for regular meals is today on the way out on the American landscape.

Having devoted years of my life to customer service, I thought this might be a funny anecdote and a prelude and homage to the poor schlep just trying to etch out a living by putting up with difficult people.Instead I was sadly disappointed at what seemed to be little more than bathroom, sex and genitalia jokes that dominated the movie and culminated into moments of "who cares?" and it makes no sense. If you could imagine filming grade school aged boys in the privacy of their own thoughts and circles of friends, then you might get a similar result to any given moment of "waiting". If you worship Beavis and Butthead to the point of enacting their every move and mindset, you'll enjoy "waiting."The thing is, everyone in this cast i've seen in other movies and enjoyed, it's not that there's no talent, I don't blame the actors, what a genuine shame at a waste of everyone's time and talent. I'm not even sure who to pinpoint the blame on. There's nothing funny, amusing, or thought provoking, about "waiting". There's nothing funny about the "game" played amongst the male staff, messing with food, bathroom sex, nervous urinating, crude discussions, nothing. In fact the only sympathetic or relate-able character in the whole movie is Mitch, who seems to escape the charade of stupid and genuinely acts like a real human being. The rest of the overtired, clichéd one dimensional staff are so unlikable that it's impossible to feel empathy towards them when they have horrible customers.I'm giving a generous 1 star, for the cast who I felt sorry for, and for the story thats suckitude is legendary.