Waitress!

{{short description|1981 film by Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Waitress!

| image = File:Waitress!_1981_Movie_Poster.jpg

| caption =

| director = Lloyd Kaufman
Michael Herz

| producer = Lloyd Kaufman
Michael Herz
Tony Gittleson
Ira Kanarick
Lloyd Kaufman

| writer = Charles Kaufman
Michael Stone

| starring = Jim Harris
Carol Drake
Carol Bevar
Renata Majer
Hunt Block

| music =

| cinematography = Lloyd Kaufman

| editing = Dan Lowenthal

| distributor = Troma Entertainment

| released = {{Film date|1981}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

|budget=$400,000{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilmdist0000dona/page/241/mode/1up|title= American film distribution : the changing marketplace|last=Donahue|first= Suzanne Mary|year=1987 |publisher=UMI Research Press |page=241}}

|gross = $5.15 million{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilmdist0000dona/page/293/mode/1up|title= American film distribution : the changing marketplace|last=Donahue|first= Suzanne Mary|year=1987 |publisher=UMI Research Press |page=293}} Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada

}}

Waitress! is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment. It was the second in Troma's line of "sexy comedies", preceded by the 1979's Squeeze Play! and followed by 1982's Stuck on You! and 1983's The First Turn-On!{{cite news |last=Gibron |first=Bill |url= http://www.popmatters.com/post/112588-tromas-sexy-box-set-squeeze-playwaitressstuck-on-youthe-first-turn-o/ |title=Troma's Sexy Box Set: Squeeze Play/Waitress/Stuck on You/The First Turn-On |work=PopMatters |date=October 4, 2009 |accessdate=September 1, 2017}}

Premise

The film follows an aspiring actress working as a waitress, as she deals with a variety of crazy customers, drunken chefs and other zany hurdles.

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