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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.
History Glee Club Subset (1949–1956) The Cayuga's Waiters formed in 1949. The name is a play on Cornell's alma mater, "Far Above Cayuga's Waters".:239 Although dressed in standard Glee Club attire (a tuxedo), they distinguished themselves from other Glee Club members by draping towels over their arms—a visual pun on their ensemble's name.
Speakers of British English may be unfamiliar with the terms, which are translated in British English as commis waiter, commis boy, or waiter's assistant. [7] [9] [10] [11] The term for a busser in the classic brigade de cuisine system is commis de débarrasseur , or simply débarrasseur .
Manual labour. Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any ...
The District of Columbia, which has the highest-paid waiters and waitresses in the country (mean wage: $24.42/hour) has a minimum wage of $8.00 for tipped employees. In the state of Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, same minimum wage are applied for both tipped and non-tipped employees.
A costumed cocktail waitress serving drinks. A cocktail waitress, colloquially known as a bottle girl, [1] is a female server who brings alcoholic drinks to patrons of drinking establishments such as bars, [2] cocktail lounges, casinos, [2] comedy clubs, jazz clubs, cabarets, and other live music venues. The gender-neutral job title is cocktail ...
A steward's assistant ( SA) is an unlicensed, entry-level crewmember in the Steward's department of a merchant ship. This position can also be referred to as steward (the usual term on British ships), galley utilityman, messman, supply, waiter or General Steward ( GS ). The role of the steward's assistant consists mainly of stocking, cleaning ...
The 1912 New York City waiters’ strike began on May 7, 1912 at the Belmont Hotel and was the first general strike for waiters and hotel workers in New York City history. That day over 150 hotel workers walked out as a sign of protest against their poor working conditions. The strike was organized by Joseph James Ettor and Elizabeth Gurley ...