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Waiting staff , [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.
The maître d'hôtel (French for 'master of the house'; pronounced [mɛːtʁə dotɛl] ⓘ), head waiter, host, waiter captain, or maître d ' (UK: / ˌ m eɪ t r ə ˈ d iː / MAY-trə DEE, US: / ˌ m eɪ t ər-/ MAY-tər -) manages the public part, or "front of the house", of a formal restaurant.
A banquet hall, function hall, or reception hall, is a special purpose room, or a building, used for hosting large social and business events. Typically a banquet hall is capable of serving dozens to hundreds of people a meal in a timely fashion. People and organizations rent them to hold parties, banquets, wedding receptions, or other social ...
A banquet (/ ˈ b æ ŋ k w ɪ t /; French:) is a formal large meal [1] where a number of people consume food together. Banquets are traditionally held to enhance the prestige of a host, or reinforce social bonds among joint contributors.
In North America, a busser, sometimes known as a busboy or busgirl, is a person in the restaurant and catering industry clearing tables, taking dirty dishes to the dishwasher, setting tables, refilling and otherwise assisting the waiting staff.
A multicourse meal or full-course dinner is a meal with multiple courses, typically served in the evening or late afternoon.Each course is planned with a particular size and genre that befits its place in the sequence, with broad variations based on locale and custom.
The historical form of service à la russe (French: [sɛʁvis a la ʁys]; ' service in the Russian style ', Russian: русская сервировка) is a manner of dining with courses brought to the table sequentially, and the food portioned on individual plates by the waiter (typically from a sideboard in the dining room).
In the restaurant industry, gueridon service or tableside service is the cooking or finishing of foods by a waiter (or maître d'hôtel) at the diner's table, typically from a special serving cart called a guéridon trolley.