There are so many things written about restaurant staff. A lot of things I read overplay one or two aspects of the job and are very confident that this happens in all restaurants. There are many kinds of restaurants. I don’t know where people get the bravado to generalize so conclusively.
I would like to write about waiting tables. Sometimes I think about it. There are a lot of good characters and situations. The situations are often a challenge to capture with words, however, that’s not the main reason I have so far refrained from trying. Writing about restaurants is a little like writing about a disaffected young man in that it’s already been done and overdone, sometimes successfully and sometimes poorly—mostly poorly.
I started to write a post about the restaurant where I work, but I wasn’t one hundred percent sure what servers are called in the King’s English, so I looked that up. That brought me to an article about restaurant staff and twenty-six things they know about you. And that article was very true about one kind of restaurant, or maybe even one restaurant, but it claimed to speak for all restaurants.
I don’t identify primarily as a restaurant employee, but it was annoying all the same.
And then I realized that I have to stop getting annoyed so easily and just try to have fun.
Anyone's Ghost 
we brits call food servers waiters / waitresses and drink servers barmen or barwomen. Why what do YOU call them? King’s English! hahaha, is there something I don’t know about old Elizabeth then? Its always more of a struggle to write about something you are very falimilar because you know precisely what you want to capture, whereas if its something you don’t know too much about, then your expectations are more fluid.
Ha! Queens English then! I’ve always harbored a chauvinist bent. I blame it on my parents. Really great insight, I never thought of familiar writing like that.