countermen

The place was packed before a Royals game, you lined up to get to the counter, the food was being whirled about confusingly, the line hustled along by the countermen, step up, step up, keep moving, what do you want, and I from New York was the rube, and intimidated.

Avery Corman: New York: A Major Barbecue City...Really! 2010

At the Kaladi Brothers coffee shop, countermen Jeremiah Collins and Tyler Montanez said they didn't care much one way or the other about Sarah Palin's politics.

Circus Returns to Palin's Hometown 2010

I would hand-pick my own pickle from a giant barrel (a ritual inconceivable today in a culture dependent on sanitizer gel) and stand in line and order a hand-sliced corned beef sandwich from the countermen who knew my grandparents by name.

Dana Joy Altman: Real Food Rehab: Save The Deli 2009

DoNots and I has coffee an reeds teh SonDay papur, an chex my email on mah cell phone and has fun talkees wiff all my Citrus Heights countermen dey bee a berry up-in-yuh-nated groop, lemmee tell ya!

Tree hugger Panda - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

On one side of the establishment was the dining area, and on the other was a thirty-foot glass counter filled with all sorts of meats and salads and knishes of various origins, and behind the counter were usually about half a dozen yarmulked, white-smocked countermen, who engaged in playful Yiddish banter and efficient meat-slicing and shouted with authority, “Next!”

Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

No mirrors flashed the light of delectation from behind a bar attended by indulgent countermen.

Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

No mirrors flashed the light of delectation from behind a bar attended by indulgent countermen.

Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

I followed him behind the delicatessen counter, onto the duckboards, into the midst of his countermen and butchers, whose faces at that moment dared show no partisan expression.

Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

She came to know all the guards, the paper vendors, the countermen.

A STRANGER IS WATCHING MARY HIGGINS CLARK 1977

Jimmy's intelligence told him that countermen in a joint like this didn't expect tips, so he saved himself that hurdle.

The Fourth R George Oliver Smith 1946