headwaiter

/hed-wey-ter/US // ˈhɛdˈweɪ tər //

领班,管家,负责人,管事

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.

as inmaitre d'hotel

Synonyms

The headwaiter, clad in the long waistcoat and full trunk-hose of the late Seventeenth Century, bowed punctiliously.
Houston looked complacently at his drink while the headwaiter led Dorrine to a table on the far side of the room.
The headwaiter approached bearing another magnum of vintage wine.
The headwaiter always knows me the minute I come into the room—keeps a chair for me.
But when Stewart asked for his bill, the proprietor, instead of intrusting it as usual to the headwaiter, presented it in person.