Refers specifically to a chef trained in Western-style cooking, often in a professional kitchen setting.
He works as a chef at the hotel, in charge of French cuisine.
cook or waiter on a ship
Archaic term for a person who worked as a cook or waiter aboard a ship.
On old ships, the cook prepared meals for the crew.
Compound of 司 (to manage), 厨 (kitchen), and 士 (person of a certain profession). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term appears to have been used in early modern Japanese for Western-style chefs and later for shipboard cooks.