Wamiqa Gabbi

I'd be doing all sorts of odd jobs and traveling the world. Let alone if I wasn't an actress, even now if my films stop doing well and people stop liking me, I'd go do odd jobs, like a waitress or something like that and save just about enough to see the world.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.

American Actress

Patrick Wilson

If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?

American Actor

Patti Smith

My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

American Musician

Christopher Guest

I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.

British Director

Bill Bryson

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

American Writer

Juno Temple

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.

English Actress

Rodney Dangerfield

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

American Comedian

Brandi Glanville

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

American Celebrity

Don Herold

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Although traditionally 'waiter' refers to men, many use 'server' as a gender-neutral alternative.

Gender-neutral Usage

It's polite to get a waiter's attention without loud or impolite gestures, such as snapping fingers.

Waiter Etiquette

Tipping practices vary; in many countries, it's customary to tip waiters for good service.

Cultural Tipping

The historical use of 'waiter' as a tray is outdated, and using it this way may confuse listeners.

Archaic Object

Words like 'waiter' can change meaning over time; in modern contexts, people rarely use it to mean 'tray'.

Evolved Meaning

 The waiters are products of a society that has taught them that men are more important than women. And I know that waiters don't intend any harm. But it's one thing to know intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally. Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I feel upset.

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 or are they just tokenistic drops in the ocean? Good question. It's a good question. They are totally important. Absolutely important. Because it's not just about the one straw that I use. It's about me not using that straw, going to a restaurant and telling the waitress,

How we can turn the tide...

 using the same restaurant setting for each. First up is dual processing. We'll need an action. Let's go with a waiter dropping a tray of dishes. As the scene unfolds, your brain's hemispheres process a flurry of the waiter's flailing arms, his cry for help,

What is déjà vu? What is...

 I knew even then that I would encounter cultural differences and misunderstandings, but they popped up when I least expected it. On my first day, I went to a restaurant, and I ordered a cup of green tea with sugar. After a pause, the waiter said,

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 waiters that they swing it around when they fight it's not fighting around bow is busy enjoying some leaves of the red bush willow I wonder if he knows if you make a lovely decoction out of them they can serve and to help any abdominal

Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...

 as menial as I was as they were but what I didn't like is having the boss I didn't like a single boss they ever worked for and so at 23 I borrowed a thousand dollars from my boyfriend at the diner where I worked as a waitress

Entrepreneurs come from...

 and not dwell on my past. Along the way I've met many people who've provided me brutally honest feedback, advice and mentorship. These people don't mind that I once worked as a singing waitress to help pay for college.

Why the best hire might...

 So this decision to go back to work so early, it's a rational economic decision driven by family finances, but it's often physically horrific because putting a human into the world is messy. A waitress told me,

How America Fails New...

 only in a specialized filming chamber can we capture its extraordinary talent the waiter has developed special proteins which prevent ice crystals from