french word for a dishwasher?

Question

as in the person who washes dishes and pots in a restaurant
does he/she have a specific name?

Answer 1

The JOB is ''un plongeur/une plongeuse'' or simply ''être plongeur/plongeuse'', you could say both.

And instead of saying, ''faire la plonge'', though it does work, it would be better saying, ''faire DE la plonge'' or even ''être À la plonge'', implying that the dishwahser is some sort of ''work station''.

I'm working in the kitchen tonight and I'm washing the dishes = Je travaille à la cuisine ce soir et je suis à la plonge.

Answer 2

Just thinking of George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London. He was a 'plongeur'. He married Sonia Brownwell, who lived in France. She was an extraordinary woman. She spoke French very rapidly and could speak for hours on end in French about the history of Ireland, but would then be suddenly crushed by some idiot who corrected her grammar.
Otherwise of course dishwasher today is just le lave-vaiselle.
Sonia Orwell just raged 'Why can't you THINK? French people THINK.'

Answer 3

Yeah the person washing the dishes in a restaurant is called a plongeur.

A diswasher in french = un lave-vaisselle

Answer 4

plongeur for a guy/plongeuse for a girl

faire la plonge, être à la plonge

Answer 5

Un Plongeur or Une plongeuse

It is Faire la plonge not la plongeoir or what ever else that silly girl wrote, :o)

Answer 6

a dishwasher in french is madam or mamselle, sorry i though it a funny question

Answer 7

le dishwasher

Answer 8

a man dish washer? :

homme de lave-vaiselle

Answer 9

well the job is called 'faire la plongeoir' so i guess the person would be called 'plongeur'

Answer 10

Trucky has got it right