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wait on

• serve food or drink to someone in a restaurant, cafe, bar, etc.
• "she was the waitress who usually waited on him at the cafe"
• act as an attendant to someone.
• "a maid was appointed to wait on her"
Similar: serve, attend to, tend, cater for/to, act as a waitress/waiter to, accommodate, minister to, take care of, look after, see to, succour, pander to,
• stay where one is or delay action until someone arrives or is ready, or until a particular time or event.
• "they will wait on a Supreme Court ruling"
• refrain from doing something until something else happens.
• "wait on, I've an important message for you"


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