wait tables AmE
wait on tables BrE , also: wait at tables BrE

These people who've never held a job, this summer, they're waiting tables.

She has never had to wait tables to support her acting.

His wife, after all, often waited tables to support him.

When we're not working in a show, we wait tables, do anything, to support ourselves.

I also wait tables at a health food cafe down on National.

Just having a degree and a few summers waiting tables is no longer enough, he said.

There had to be something she could do, even if it was waiting tables in the hotel restaurant.

Now I am waiting tables, writing, and taking pictures; it's a beginning.

I helped out waiting tables, and got to know him then."

"She came out to be an actress and ended up waiting tables."

With the war over, they were doing everything but waiting tables last week trying to draw a little attention to their campaigns.

Or do the ones I liked and wait tables the rest of the time."

By her own accounts, she "spent eight years doing theater and waiting tables."

"Waiting tables was the most lucrative way to make money in the city.

He'd been waiting tables there for a long time.

And you're not going to do it by waiting tables or answering telephones.

She is not the only blond Asian waiting tables at the restaurant.

He declared his major as political science and waited tables at a local boarding house.

"If we have to wait tables at night, we'll somehow make it happen.

"I'm not exactly in the mood to wait tables tonight," he said.

I waited tables here for a while when I was going to school.

You carry out the garbage and I'll let him wait tables!"

It's a good thing I'm not waiting tables tonight.

"I've got a mother waiting tables and living off a dead cop's pension."

All of them crowded with tourists and the natives left waiting tables.