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CIVILIAN DEPARTMENT
Waiter
Waiter	Difficulty: Easy Requirements: None Access Level: Kitchen, Bar Additional Roleplay Access Level: None Supervisors: Chef, Bartender, Sous-Chef, Head of Personnel Subordinates: None Responsibilities: Greet and seat people, take orders for the Kitchen, and then bring them their food and drink. Guides: Food and Drinks

Often found wearing a snappy uniform and carrying trays of food and drink, the Waiter is a latejoin Job Of The Day that is only available on Wednesdays. They are comparable to the Sous-Chef in that their purpose is to make the Chef and Bartender's jobs easier by helping them manage the cafeteria. The key difference though is that they are meant to focus on the front of the house by serving as part host, part server, part sommelier, and part busboy. In short, helping the Chef run the cafeteria like an actual restaurant. In reality, though, their real purpose is to be vocally abused by ingrates and the Chef for every little thing that happens during the meal. The Waiter's access to the Kitchen and Bar means that they can easily ferry out food to customers, and even make it themselves if the situation calls for it (although you risk pissing off the Chef and Space OSHA if you do).

Waiting On A Promotion

The Waiter has a very somewhat kind of intersesting history. It started out as a popular gimmick for a Staff Assistant to run, as it was a fun low-pressure way to learn how to cook and led to interesting restaurant RP. Eventually, Waiter became one of the latejoin gimmick jobs, and then a Job of the Day due to it's popularity.

In early 2020, an ambitious plan for a catering department was drafted, and brought to github and the forums for feedback. The main change, alongside substantial additions to Botany, was a new "Head of Catering" role. It also made the Waiter and Sous-Chef roundstart roles, to help flesh out the department and give the new middle management peons to boss around. Concerns about how the Head of Personnel was going to have even less responsibilities somehow and how much the station really needs an entire department (bigger then science!) for food was brought up. Unfortunately due to unforseen personal issues, we may never know how such a rework would've looked like in the end. And thus, the Waiter was never given that promotion to full-time, and remains begging for tips at below minimum wage.

Today, Waiters are still the Job of the Day for Wednesday, and on days that aren't Wednesday, stuff like waistcoats and butler suits can be brought from the catering clothing vendor for Chefs and Bartenders running gimmicks, or maybe the odd staffie looking for a purpose in life tips like they did all those years ago.

Customer Disservice

Antagonist Waiters are few and far between due to their nature as a latejoin role, and certain antagonists such as Werewolf or the Grinch they can never be. That said, you have access to chem equipment so, really, the only limit to the atrocities you can commit is your imagination and determination. Plus, much like most gimmick jobs, you have a tendency to fly under the radar and most people wouldn't notice a missing waiter if they were farting in their face. So feel free to give the Captain five diseases in one burger and dissapear, leaving your boss in hot water. Syringes don't even show text when you inject food with them, so this tactic becomes very devilish as most people won't be astute enough to notice you discretly injecting their pizza slice with 15 units of capulletium. You naturally have easy access to the kitchen tools such as knives, cleavers, and rolling pins so you aren't hurting for weapons either. Traiter Waiters do actually get access to the Hot Dog Cart and the Hotdog Grenades, so you have everything ready to go on a sausauge-themed rampage. Or just feel free to buy a shotgun and show those ungrateful bastards what a real tip looks like.