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Waiting staff was a job that individuals were employed to take and serve orders for food and served them in various establishments. The female-gendered term was waitress.
Named waiting staff[]
Anna was a waitress in Worthing, England. (AUDIO: Running Out of Time)
Astrid Peth was a waitress from the planet Sto. Seeking a chance to see more of the universe, she got a job onboard the Titanic where she met the Tenth Doctor. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
Ace was working as a waitress on Iceworld when she met the Seventh Doctor. (TV: Dragonfire, PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark) She briefly worked as a waitress again in London. (AUDIO: Police and Shreeves)
Cassie Schofield was a waitress in London who befriended Dr Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: Project: Twilight)
Cassie Rice was a waitress at a New Mexican diner. (TV: Dreamland)
Doris Lethbridge-Stewart was a waitress at the Royal Albion Hotel prior to marrying her husband. (PROSE: A Wee Deoch an ...?)
Jen was a waitress at Happy Cook. (TV: Random Shoes)
Lucy was a waitress serving salmon pinwheels at Jackie Tyler's 40th birthday party in a parallel universe. She briefly met the Tenth Doctor and pointed out the President of Great Britain to him, much to Rose Tyler's chagrin. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
Unnamed waitresses[]
A waitress was controlled by Rosemary Kizlet whilst talking to the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
While visiting France in the 19th century, the Eleventh Doctor asked a waitress about Vincent van Gogh. She told him that van Gogh was "mad, drunk and never paid the bills". (TV: Vincent and the Doctor)
People who pretended to be waitresses[]
Rose Tyler disguised herself as a waitress on an alternative Earth so that she could investigate Peter Tyler before her first encounter with Cybus Cybermen. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
Peri Brown once pretended to be a waitress in an alien restaurant. (AUDIO: Urban Myths)
Clara Oswald pretended to be a waitress when her TARDIS masqueraded as a 1950s American diner following the Twelfth Doctor losing his memory of her. (TV: Hell Bent)