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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 coordinate with the Chef and ferry food out to the restaurant floor. Plus, it allows for you to learn how to cook and mix drinks in a less demanding role than regular Chef and Bartender.

Waiting On A Promotion

The Waiter has a very somewhat almost interesting history, as it started out as a common gimmick for HoPs to give to wandering, bored, Staff Assistants. Eventually, it was added as a gimmick job (alongside it's cousin-in-arms Sous-Chef) in 2014 so anybody could easily become a waiter if they wanted. When the Mail Courier was promoted to full-time, Waiter took it's place as Wednesday's Job Of The Day.

In early 2020, talks of a "Catering Department" began, the idea being to bring Botany and the Kitchen together into one new department. It would've involved subtantial additions to botany and even a new Head of Catering. But more relevantly, it would've brought Sous-Chef and Waiter to roundstart status. Despite getting a good amount of progress made, it ended up quietly shuttering due to unfortunate personal issues alongside concerns about the Head of Catering making the Head of Personnel somehow have less responsiblities. And with it's death, so did the Waiter's chance to finally get 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, after all, is easy to come by and most people would blame the person who made the food quicker than the person who delivered it. You also naturally have easy access to kitchen tools such as knives, cleavers, and rolling pins so you aren't hurting for weapons either. Traiter Waiters do 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.