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Waiting staff. Waiting staff ( BrE ), [1] waiters ( MASC) / waitresses ( FEM ), or servers (AmE) [2] [3] are those who work at a restaurant, a diner, or a bar and sometimes in private homes, attending to customers by supplying them with food and drink as requested. Waiting staff follow rules and guidelines determined by the manager.
Jacques Chirac, former President of France, worked as a busser and waiter in a Howard Johnson's restaurant while attending summer school at Harvard University. [24] Robert Downey Jr., American actor, worked as a busser at a restaurant in New York City for three years, because he was "too sweaty" to work as a waiter. [25]
The maître d'hôtel ( French for 'master of the house'; pronounced [mɛːtʁə dotɛl] ⓘ ), head waiter, host, waiter captain, or maître d ' ( UK: / ˌmeɪtrə ˈdiː / MAY-trə DEE, US: / ˌmeɪtər -/ MAY-tər -) manages the public part, or "front of the house", of a formal restaurant. The responsibilities of a maître d'hôtel ...
Room service or in-room dining is a hotel service enabling guests to choose items of food and drink for delivery to their hotel room for consumption. Room service is organized as a subdivision within the food and beverage department of high-end hotel and resort properties. It is uncommon for room service to be offered in hotels that are not ...
While the title is not regulated, most [citation needed] coffee shops use the title to describe the preparer of coffee and the operator of an espresso machine. Good espresso-making is essential to a barista's role. Latte art is a visible sign of a trained barista and well-frothed milk. A barista with his mobile espresso bar in Ystad, Sweden, 2013
The exterior of Tom's Restaurant, which appears as Monk's Café in the sitcom Seinfeld. Monk's Café is a fictional coffee shop from the NBC sitcom Seinfeld.The exterior of Tom's Restaurant on the corner of West 112th Street and Broadway, near Columbia University, which first appears in season 1 episode 3, "The Robbery," is often shown on the show as the exterior of Monk's, though the ...
Diner lingo. Diner lingo is a kind of American verbal slang used by cooks and chefs in diners and diner-style restaurants, and by the wait staff to communicate their orders to the cooks. [1] [2] Usage of terms with similar meaning, propagated by oral culture within each establishment, may vary by region or even among restaurants in the same locale.
Maid café. Maid cafés ( Japanese: メイド喫茶 or メイドカフェ, Hepburn: meido kissa or meido kafe) are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan and Taiwan. In these cafés, waitresses, dressed in maid costumes, act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) as if they were in a private home ...