Verb
wait tables (third-person singular simple present waits tables, present participle waiting tables, simple past and past participle waited tables)
(stative) To wait as a server in a restaurant or other dine-in eatery.
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had. Ann Patchett
There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience. Piper Perabo
I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again. Steve Carell
I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week. William Baldwin