waiters

The market for waiters is competitive, and most waiters are paid what they are worth, no more or no less.

Tyler Cowen Practices Reverse Psychiatry, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Someone once sniffed, "In America they call waiters 'Sir.'"

A Week of Shocks but Few Surprises Peggy Noonan 2011

Tillman made further headlines during 2000 when she created a controversy by demanding that the Palmer House remove two waiters from a banquet that she sponsored and replace the servers with two African American waiters.

Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

I seem now, at the distance of three thousand miles, to see his smiling face and hear him call the waiters, and give them orders, without for one moment suspending his conversation with a guest who is standing at the bar and making inquiries of him.

Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen Jabez Delano 1847

"Why are they called waiters?" inquired my son when he was about five.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011

"Why are they called waiters?" inquired my son when he was about five.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011

"Why are they called waiters?" inquired my son when he was about five.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011

Something I don’t miss because I never experienced it NOB pertaining to waiters, is something unique and perhaps indigenous to Mexico or maybe other countries I’ve not visited where others worldlier can reflect on this forum.

What you miss "the least" while living in Mexico? 2006

They spend their days in British "clubs," sipping gin and tonics and calling waiters "boy" as a ceiling fan whirrs overhead and, outside, life progresses without them.

Jessica Olien: The Sun Sets on The New York Times 2009

But the most alarmed at the change of system was that prudential set of persons, some of whom are found in all governments, but who abound in a provincial administration like that of Scotland during the period, and who are what Cromwell called waiters upon Providence, or, in other words, uniform adherents to the party who are uppermost.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008