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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

The honored guests moved silently upon the platform, herded toward their high, carved chairs by Dr. Bledsoe with the decorum of a portly head waiter.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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