waitress
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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
A waitress in the room cried out in Spanish, “I don’t want to die here. I don’t want to die in this room.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Ashlin McCourt clocks up 60 hours a week working as a civil servant, a waitress and a baker because "life's so expensive", she says.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
One week before his visit, the students emailed him a list of 35 questions that largely circled around Janie Hatley, the Arlington waitress who’d dated Ortiz.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
As Lupita watched her admiringly, she thought that being a waitress must be a very good job.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
So a set was built in a converted house about 5 miles away, where Julia Roberts plays one of the three love-struck waitresses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
"We don't need 10 waitresses to be serving four tables," Gonzalez says.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 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
The kitchen turns into a madhouse with cooks working and waitresses fighting to get their orders out first, all while the floor is flooded with soda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
There was a blind innkeeper and his sighted wife, who was the cook, and their two young daughters, who worked as waitresses and maids.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
