The maître d' (short for the French "maître d'hôtel" meaning "master of hotel") is the head host in a restaurant. Their job is to welcome and seat guests, take reservations, supervise the wait staff and make sure that the guests have a satisfactory dining experience.
It appears that even the French don't have a term for it; if you search it up, you will find references to "femme maitre d'" just as you find references to "female maitre d'." So the answer appears to be, simply, "female maitre d'," a term which certainly would upset NOW. If we make no gender distinction with "flight attendant," why make a gender distinction with maitre d'? By now, most English speakers don't even realize that maitre d' is male. Therefore, my suggestion is to call a female maitre d' simply a maitre d' and be done with it.
When we arrived at the restaurant, I asked the maitre d' for a quiet table by the window.
A Maitre D can make anywhere between 15-25/hr or salary.
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Maitre means host. You might have heard of a maitre d', the full form of which is maitre d'hotel or something like that. It literally means host of the hotel
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The spelling is maitre d' (with the hanging apostrophe) from the French maître d'hotel.
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It is a maitre d'hotel. Depending of the size of the establishment, the duties are to organize the waiters, greet and place the guests, deal with complaints, sometimes take care of reservations as well. If the restaurant is smaller, duties may include being the head waiter.
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