waitstaff

or wait staff

[weyt-staf, ‐stahf]

noun

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

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Contemporary Examples of waitstaff

Waitstaff, whose hourly wages are a fairly trivial part of their compensation, will presumably just clock out and keep working.
Counting Full Time Employees
Megan McArdle
January 18, 2013
Working stiffs like the waitstaff around us did not even enter into his calculation.
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Eric Alterman
June 30, 2011

Word Origin and History for waitstaff

n.

1981, American English; see waiter + staff (n.).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper