Crossword-Solution: COUNTERMAN 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The counterman waved distractedly in the manner of a harried restaurateur dealing with his regulars, and said something in Korean to the busgirl, who along with the Vietnamese chef and the Congolese sous chef, lent the joint a transworld sensibility that made it a favorite among the painfully global darlings of O'Malley House.

The counterman kept his slips in the basement so that he could sit among them and see how his business had grown, every slip a person served, a ring on the till, money in the bank.

Many an ingenious placer has had the binders of his very worst risks--that he had been totally unable to cover--freshly typewritten every morning in order to convey the impression that the order had that moment been secured by his firm and that the hesitating counterman to whom it was being presented with elaborate indifference was the first--the best friend of the placer--to whom the line had been offered.

The counterman came up and wiped the counter clean in front of him with a rag that might have been white once upon a time.

There was one man at Bradford office, a counterman, a man of superior attainments, a gentleman by birth and education, who, realising the situation, conceived the possibility of a universal agitation among telegraphists, if not all postal servants who had wrongs to be righted and grievances to be redressed.