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waitstaff

/weyt-staf, ‐stahf/US // ˈweɪtˈstæf, ‐ˈstɑf //

服务员,服务人员,侍者,服务生

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a staff of waiters or waitresses who wait on tables, as in a restaurant.
    • : a waiter or waitress.

Examples

  • There is virtually no waitstaff, and “doing the dishes” after a burger and fries pretty much just means throwing all the packaging in the trash.

  • Bonus points if you get tested a couple of days before just to make sure you’re keeping the waitstaff safe from potential infection.

  • It’s also far too easy to mindlessly endanger restaurant workers carrying the lion’s share of risk, forgetting or simply choosing not to put a mask back on when waitstaff come to take an order or drop off food.

  • The fact that male customers might not realize how much power their demands had over the livelihoods of their female waitstaff — or worse, that they might be fully aware.

  • Soon, waitstaff at Chili’s had also tested positive, forcing the location to close.

  • Waitstaff, whose hourly wages are a fairly trivial part of their compensation, will presumably just clock out and keep working.

  • Working stiffs like the waitstaff around us did not even enter into his calculation.