a waiter in a fast-food restaurant?

[diamondcutter]

I’d like to know if the worker who receives customers behind the counter in a fast-food restaurant like McDonald's is also called a waiter.

 

[GoesStation]

No. Waiters and waitresses provide service at your table. They're generally called "servers" in American restaurants these days.

 

[tedmc]

What about counter staff/servers?

 

[Tarheel]

A fast food restaurant has counter staff but no servers. You stand at the counter and order your food. After you get it you take it to a table. Or you order takeout.

(A local chain bills itself as "casual food fast". You order your food then sit at a table. Somebody brings you the food.)

 

[tedmc]

A fast food restaurant has counter staff but no servers. You stand at the counter and order your food. After you get it you take it to a table. Or you order takeout.

(A local chain bills itself as "casual food fast". You order your food then sit at a table. Somebody brings you the food.)

Customers are being attended to or served at the counter, not at the table. It is still a service, a counter service that is.