Character Star Trek: Deep Space Nine · 2372

Grimp

Ferengi waiter at Quark's

A Ferengi waiter at Quark's bar on Deep Space 9 who becomes a nervous member of Rom's Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees in the episode Bar Association.

Grimp is a Ferengi employed as a waiter at Quark's, appearing in the fourth-season episode Bar Association. He is present when Rom, recovering from an ear infection made worse because he was allowed no time off, proposes that the staff band together against his brother's pay cut.
Grimp shares his fellow Ferengi's horror at the very word union, which runs against everything their society teaches about employers and contracts. He nonetheless joins the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees and walks out with the dabo girls and the other waiters.
The strikers hold together while Quark tries to run the bar with holographic waiters and Brunt of the Ferengi Commerce Authority threatens them. Once Quark gives in privately, Grimp and the rest go back to their jobs with the raises and shorter hours they asked for.