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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Just ask and they’ll be brought to your table by white-gloved waiters for your reading pleasure over coffee, a digestif, and mellow jazz.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026 -
Chief among Galatoire’s assets is the focus on individual veteran waiters, some of whom have decades of service behind them — four in the case of Billy Fontenot, whose late father worked there 54 years.—
Tom Sietsema,
Washington Post,
17 Jan. 2026
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“Waitpersons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waitpersons. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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