waitering

waiter +‎ -ing

waitering (uncountable)

1. The work of a waiter, serving customers at their table with food and drink.
   • 1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage

     Nor yet can you lay down the gentleman's service when stimulated by prolonged incompatibility on the part of cooks (and here it may be remarked that Cooking and Incompatibility will be mostly found united), and take up Waitering.