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head waiter

British  

noun

  1. a waiter who supervises the activities of other waiters and arranges the seating of guests

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They include a signed menu and the band's £2 15s bar bill - on which the head waiter had written their name as "Beetles".

From BBC Nov. 4, 2023

"I don't think it will ever be able to compete with Galician octopus," said head waiter Claudio Gandara.

From Reuters Feb. 23, 2022

He looked, Thomsen recalls, “so much like a pale, pouchy, and cruelly overworked head waiter that every civilian there, I felt, was trying very hard not to hand him a tip.”

From Slate Oct. 5, 2014

So my goal is to become the head waiter.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2013

He was the head waiter at a country club near my home town, and every Sunday my grandmother drove in to bring him home for his Monday off.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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