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A waiter is a person who "waits" on tables, often at a restaurant. Female waiters are often called waitress, but the gender-neutral waiter or even "server" may be
used.
Waiters' duties include preparing tables for a meal, taking customers' orders and serving drinks and food in a restaurant.
Depending on the type of restaurant, this may involve other uncommon duties, such as singing a birthday song to customers who are
celebrating a birthday; a Western-themed restaurant may require waiters to line
dance.
Certain fantasy books (notably including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams) refer to an alternate maths invented
and used by waiters. This is an extension of traditional mathematics which takes into account not only the mere numbers involved
in a calculation but also the context of the situation where the calculation takes place. It is a holistic approach to mathematics and much more complex than normal mathematics, which results in it not being
reproducible and also financially beneficial to the waiter.
Waiters in fiction and film
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