waitpersons

variants or waitpeople
plural of waitperson
as in waiters
a person who serves food or drink asked the waitperson what she would recommend on the menu

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waiters
Noun
  • Meanwhile, at Café Central, waiters dressed in waistcoats serve melange (a famed Viennese coffee) beneath vaulted ceilings once frequented by Trotsky and Freud.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • My entire childhood was being the boss’s son and having all the Scottish and Irish waitresses and waiters, the Russian guy making fruit salads, the Hungarian guy who made the Jell-O molds and the Haitian guys in the kitchen busting my chops for being the boss’s son.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Waitpersons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waitpersons. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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