Aubrey Carter

We say waiter, waitress, but I'm not sure exactly why, but server has just sort of replaced that.

I wonder if a lot of it is because it's removing gender, where you have to say waiter, waitress, you have to know their gender, whereas server, they're all just a server and you don't have to know gender.

You might accidentally mess up the gender if you're using waiter, waitress.

Mm hmm.

Or as we said, a diner buffet, you mentioned family style.

We often will order family style, especially at an Asian restaurant where you're ordering several things from the menu and then everyone's sharing.

You're sort of taking a little bit of each entree.

So family style, regardless of often Italian places, people will do this to just order several items and share.

Yeah.

I agree.

You taste everything and you don't feel like you have to finish your entree.

Yeah.

So that's a server is taking care of your table, bringing you everything that you would need.

Upscale is an adjective we use to describe these fancier restaurants.

We'll say it's upscale or elegant, we mentioned.

Mm-hmm.

Another interesting, it's a French word we use, prefix, which means a fixed price for a specific menu.

You'll be told, you know, the appetizer, entree, dessert, maybe drinks.

It's all a set menu that the chef has prepared for sort of a special occasion usually.

Restaurant week here does that where it's like a special event and they have a prefix menu.