Waiting staff, wait staff, or waitstaff are those who work at a restaurant or a bar attening customers — supplying them with food and drink as requested. Traditionally, a male waiting tables is called a "waiter" and a female a "waitress." Some people prefer to use gender-neutral language, using waiter indiscriminately for males and females, waitperson,server, or waitron, an Americanism coined in the 1980s.