head waiter

British

noun

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

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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

The place had been nearly packed nightly just a few weeks ago before Omicron wiped out business, said head waiter Juan Lozano.

From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2021

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

Outside on the terrace under the arcade the German head waiter came up.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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