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  • noun assistant waiter; one who busses

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Examples

  • "The busser is a luxury that, in this environment, is very difficult to justify," says Mark Godward, president and founder of SRE, a Miami consulting firm that has advised several restaurants to cut busboys.

    If a Half-Eaten Burrito Lingers, There May Be No Busboy to Blame 2009

  • I'd been reading about Rogelio in my neighborhood newspaper, The Brooklyn Paper, for a while—the quiet busser at the Der Schwarze Kölner beer garden in Fort Greene who made a Cinderella run to last year's national competition.

    A Toast to a Real Strongman Jason Gay 2011

  • If the busser didn't clean fast enough, new customers couldn't be seated.

    Chili's Feels Heat to Pare Costs Julie Jargon 2011

  • Ordinary ended the next day as busser David Cagna stepped me through Sasson's 50-page service manual.

    Inside The Vegas Party Machine Steven Bertoni 2011

  • One of The Light Group's directors of operations, John Pettei, started as a busser; President Jodi Myers was a cocktail waitress.

    Inside The Vegas Party Machine Steven Bertoni 2011

  • One new person starts next week, and apparently the busser is going to get trained to wait tables, so this will not happen again, at least in theory.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • At the restaurant, Nick's sister is the dishwasher, and her husband is the busser and prep cook.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • Mask director Scott Glosserman was developing home invasion busser Playing House at Paramount Vantage but that seems, sadly, to have gone away.

    Sequel To Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon Taking Shape | /Film 2009

  • The logical thing to do would be for me to say ok, I'll be a busser this week.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • Started as busser/dishwasher and moved to waitress on slower shifts, or second waitress on busier ones.

    List 8: Jobs (What if No One's Watching?) 2008

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