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Maximum Diner: Making it Big in Uckfield (Paperback)

by Christopher Nye (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Sort Of Books (3 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954221737
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954221737
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 219,453 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Hysterically funny...Maximum Diner is huge fun, and highly informative...this book will make you laugh and sigh.


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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Two books for the price of one?, 10 Jun 2004
When I was given this book I was sceptical as to how the author’s experiences setting up and running a small-town diner could have provided enough material for a 400-page book actually worth reading to the end. Then (as I read it pretty much straight through) I worked out Chris Nye’s trick: he’s actually combined two books in one. The first is a very funny primer for wannabe entrepreneurs eager to avoid the obvious mistakes, or happy to enjoy someone else’s for a change. The second is a spot-on portrait of life in a small country town full (like all small towns) of bored youths, single mums and pound shops. The characters are pleasingly eccentric and the anecdotes always affectionately told. I understand Chris Nye’s brother is the man who wrote Men Behaving Badly, one of the best British sitcoms ever. Maximum Diner’s style is a lot gentler, but there’s never any shortage of laughs.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cracking, 25 Jul 2004
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Cracking book this. Funny, insightful, self-depreciative and entertaining. It's not a management parable - it won't help you run your business better, and if any retailers (fast food is retail see) out there are looking for help then 'Smart Retail' is a better bet. But if you just want to read something that will make you smile, will make you laugh and, best of all, that will have you desperate for things to work out then buy this book right now. Honestly it's one of the most enjoyable books, on anything, that I've read this year.

PS Don't read the author's biog on the inside-back cover - it gives away information that slightly spoils the story.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mmmmm Burgers!, 15 Jun 2004
After spending an evening a week for about five years at The Maximum Diner, being the person that invented the slogan "Open Your Mouth and Shovel It In", attending the Mexican Night and being one of the people watching bits of Somerfield bobbing across the Boots crossroads in Uckfield in Oct 2000, I managed to gain about 5 stone in weight! Now living in Newhaven, I'm waiting for Chris to open Newhaven's first all night American Diner! This is an amazing book, with detail recalled in explicit detail, it's almost like a time machine, a book shaped time machine.... that's about burgers!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for the 'Local Interest' shelf in the bookshop.
Like many others I have very fond memories of good food and good times spent at the 'Max' - a trip to the cinema on Saturday afternoon wasn't complete without popping in for a... Read more
Published 3 months ago by katbookworm

4.0 out of 5 stars Great read, fun, honest and real
Christopher Nye pulls no punchs in revealing what it is really like to start your own restaurant - and the impact of major chains. It is also very enjoyable in it's own right.
Published 8 months ago by Cillet Bang

5.0 out of 5 stars Amusing & entertaining read
Thoroughly enjoyed reading Christopher Nyes memoirs of battling on the front line of catering, with only a spatula and a wonky home made griddle (and the occasional unexpected act... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2007 by Buddy

5.0 out of 5 stars Maximum Diner Maximum Laughs
I loved this book - i am biased as i was there when the diner opened, know half the people in it BUT it was brilliantly written and i just couldnt stop laughing! Read more
Published on 24 April 2007 by Roxy

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun read for the drinking fastfood eating masses
This book is a great account of small town England and will be instantly recognisable to anyone who has either worked in a restaurant/diner or has seeked out fastfood whilst... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2005 by chris clarke

3.0 out of 5 stars you don't have to come from Uckfield to enjoy this...
Well it's not *that* funny, but it is amusing and kept me entertained over several sittings, without ever quite explaining why you would swap the fleshpots of Brighton for 7 years... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2005 by Robert Machin

4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite maximum marks
This was very engaging and funny, maybe a 4.5, but it did all get a little predictable and drag towards the end. Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2004 by Kath Chamberlain

5.0 out of 5 stars Just as it says on the cover!
I never knew that a little town/village could be so interesting and funny!
Published on 27 Jul 2004 by Mr. C. S. Hood

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