What does waiter mean?

Waiters refer to the waiters in restaurants, teahouses and hotels in the old days.

Waiters are popular in Beijing, Hebei and Northeast China. In the old days, it was a form of embodiment of the total process of selling customers, selling vegetables and paying bills, and serving income. The shouting of Mingtang also showed the booming business and played a role in attracting customers.

When the diners come to our house, they are greeted with a big smile. According to the experience and the requirements of the diners, we introduce our specialty dishes and flavor dishes, so as to consciously stimulate the appetite of the guests, make them firm in their determination to eat here, and guide them to sit in the appropriate position.

Give tea, towel handles (and toys if children have them), and continue to wipe them on the originally clean desktop. At the same time, introduce the dishes and wine to the customers in a targeted way, and deliver the menus ordered by the customers to the red chef in the back kitchen one by one. Its voice is high and crisp, the words are clear, and the ending is long and sweet, showing its enthusiasm.

A waiter and a shop assistant are two different occupations:

I'm afraid that most people are most familiar with the film and television image of an ancient waiter, which is Bai Zhantang in Legend of the Wulin. In reality, the waiter, that is, the waiter, will definitely not have Bai Zhantang's life experience and martial arts, but only the "service personnel" at the bottom of society.

since the establishment of the western Zhou dynasty in the middle of the 11th century BC, for thousands of years, our nation has always valued agriculture over commerce. Until the Republic of China, there was still the saying of "scholar, agriculture, industry and commerce", and "commerce" came last. "Service industry" ranks at the end of "business".

Being a wage earner in the service industry is basically a choice only when there is no other livelihood. Judging from the law of "survival of the fittest", waiters should be the "heels" in the ranking of "quality" in society.

above content reference: Baidu encyclopedia-waiter