Waiter/waitress or server, which do you use?

Lately, I've heard them being called servers by almost everyone. Is this yet another PC phrase to add to the long list of others, such as calling actresses actors?

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bijouxbroussard · F

It’s just another synonym; the term en français is serveur ou serveuse, no "PC” conspiracy. 🙄

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@bijouxbroussard I wondered because it appeared here so suddenly, the same way as 'actor' did for actress.
Server has always been the person who's starting a game of tennis or an internet company to me 🤣

bijouxbroussard · F

@BlobbyMcBlobface They serve food, too.

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@bijouxbroussard So do waiters and waitresses, which is the common term here, or was

bijouxbroussard · F

@BlobbyMcBlobface Server is not a new term.

And waiters and waitresses wait on customers.

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@bijouxbroussard It is a new term for waiters and waitresses here, I'm in the UK in case you'd forgotten

bijouxbroussard · F

@BlobbyMcBlobface It’s not new here. And apparently not new in France. And I do recall England being closer to France than the U.S. is. 😉

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@bijouxbroussard Well it's new here, why would i lie?