variants
or waitpeople
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
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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 18 Sep. 2025.
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