Employee working in fast food restaurants.

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Do you call employees who work in fast food or ordinary restaurants "shopman", "clerk" or "staff"?

Which ones are correct?

Do you use different names for employee who works either in shops or in restaurants?

(Could you also point out my grammatical errors in these questions?)

Thanks,

Ryo

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Do you call employees who work in fast food or ordinary restaurants "shopman", "clerk" or "staff"?

Which ones are correct?

Do you use different names for employee who works either in shops or in restaurants?

Here are a few comments.

shopman is not a natural word in English

clerk is a junior office worker

sales clerk is a person who sells in a store, but not a restaurant. Sometimes shortened to 'clerk'.

employee a very common term

staff is a group term. All the employees in a place are collectively 'the staff'. One of them is 'a member of the staff / a staff member'.

The term 'staff' is not used a lot. It is commonly used in schools.

IN RESTAURANTS

People are generally referred to by their function, eg a waiter, eg a cook, eg a dishwasher. They are all employees.

In a fast food restaurant, I suppose I'd say 'the counterclerk', for the person who takes your order.

We often just say things like 'Fred works in MacDonald's' or 'the guy at the counter' .

Do you hav any more questions about this?

Clive

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