as in waiter
a person who serves food or drink
asked the waitperson what she would recommend on the menu
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At the time of the June 2024 post, Jensen was working as a bartender and waiter.
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Both waiters and watchers then make a beeline back to their original spaces, often losing out to another parker and driving around some more.
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His true seasonal arc begins not with Bruce’s (Damon Daunno) death but rather in the Brick & Bacon, a New York City diner where a 20something waitress named Regina (Delainey Hayles) works shifts that don’t get her any closer to making ends meet.
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Crawford won the 1945 Oscar as a waitress who rises to own a string of Los Angeles restaurants.
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“Waitperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waitperson. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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