waitstaff

Or wait staff

[weyt-staf, ‐-stahf]

noun

1. a staff of waiters or waitresses who wait on tables, as in a restaurant.

2. a waiter or waitress.

Example Sentences

Some pretended to be difficult customers to allow the waitstaff to rehearse for future nitpicking.

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Paikin remembered incredulous customers asking the waitstaff if they could really just help themselves, and not quite believing it when they heard, “Yes, you can get whatever you want.”

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Soft-spoken, polite to waitstaff, engaged with each other without ever so much as glancing at a phone.

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Vance and his wife Usha‘s marriage. The post alleged the second couple were overheard arguing in a restaurant. A third-hand report from waitstaff at the restaurant, Lambert said, was that the couple was “fighting at dinner.”

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Whoever proves themself the most competent among the housekeepers, chefs, waitstaff and concierges will be rewarded with “a job opportunity” and a $30,000 bonus.

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