headwaiter
noun
head·wait·er
ˈhed-ˈwā-tər 
: the head of the dining-room staff of a restaurant or hotel
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Featured Recipe Mint Julep View Recipe → For dinner after the race, served over a tablecloth: roast beef with potatoes, watercress and Henry Bain sauce, a condiment that came out of Louisville’s Pendennis Club during the 19th century and is named for the headwaiter there who developed it.
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Sam Sifton, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Or as a headwaiter. Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2024
Assistant headwaiter Eric Matiko makes the best cocktails, like a Highlands buttered rum with rooibos and cinnamon that staves off the chilly evenings.
—Saumya Ancheri, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2022
Liang Chen, 52, a headwaiter, was setting tables and welcoming his regular customers back as old friends.
—Anjali Tsui, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
Go get the flowers, Casey Kasem.’ She and Tony are the headwaiters.
—New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
Many of the notations track information attributed to the headwaiter Leon Gaskill in a 1957 Holiday magazine article, suggesting that Mr. Dewey took his own notes while the reporter interviewed Mr. Gaskill.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
According to the Holiday story, the headwaiter was a 51-year veteran of Gage & Tollner at the time, meaning his restaurant memories reached back to the first decade of the 1900s.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
The headwaiter looked like a ’tacheless Salvador Dalí and drank a ball of cognac and was sustained.
—Kevin Barry, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
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Sam Sifton, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Or as a headwaiter. Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2024
Assistant headwaiter Eric Matiko makes the best cocktails, like a Highlands buttered rum with rooibos and cinnamon that staves off the chilly evenings.
—Saumya Ancheri, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2022
Liang Chen, 52, a headwaiter, was setting tables and welcoming his regular customers back as old friends.
—Anjali Tsui, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
Go get the flowers, Casey Kasem.’ She and Tony are the headwaiters.
—New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
Many of the notations track information attributed to the headwaiter Leon Gaskill in a 1957 Holiday magazine article, suggesting that Mr. Dewey took his own notes while the reporter interviewed Mr. Gaskill.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
According to the Holiday story, the headwaiter was a 51-year veteran of Gage & Tollner at the time, meaning his restaurant memories reached back to the first decade of the 1900s.
—John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
The headwaiter looked like a ’tacheless Salvador Dalí and drank a ball of cognac and was sustained.
—Kevin Barry, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
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headwaiter
noun
head·wait·er
-ˈwāt-ər
: the head of the dining-room staff of a restaurant or hotel
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