waitress
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I recently asked a waitress at a Paris restaurant for a medium-rare steak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
She eventually gets a job as a waitress at a downtown L.A. coffee shop, but keeps it a secret for fear Veda will judge her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
"It's very energetic, very chaotic," said Melanie Mendoza, a waitress at the Bourbon and Branch, a bar not far from the iconic Garden that is fully decked out in the team's colors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
In a separate posting on X in November a waitress, said to be from New York City, complained that a table of four who spent $3,000 only gave her $200 or 6.7%.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
The waitress with the sunray hair came back through the swinging doors.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
But the young women who would have become telephone operators became stenographers, administrative assistants and waitresses instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
"We don't need 10 waitresses to be serving four tables," Gonzalez says.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
His focus is on ordinary Midwesterners—bus drivers, waitresses, dime-store clerks, schoolteachers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Poker girls are officially described as waitresses, and are hired along with other staff like bartenders, chefs and parking valets to work at poker parties in private homes.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
He called to one of the waitresses: ‘Take over for me will you, please? I’m going out.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
