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Established by Paddy Glenny as The Glenny Brewery Company in Witney, Oxfordshire in 1983, it was renamed the Wychwood Brewery in 1990. Somehow, this small brewery in rural Oxfordshire went from selling to a few freehouses to producing a beer so iconic that it shifted 100,000 barrels a year, changed pub culture, and eventually became a global brand in the Carlsberg portfolio.
Defining a waitress should be easy—the job isn’t hard, or so I’m told. A waitress is a woman who works at a restaurant, and whose job it is to serve customers at their tables. When I consult the definition, I am provided with short sentences as working examples: “She works as a waitress”; “they asked the waitress for the bill”; “she plays the part of the sexy, blonde waitress.”
A waitress is a plate carrier, a server, simple enough. But what’s harder to define is the way I am treated in the role.