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Here in Devon, the local phrase from a certain age of woman server is "Hello, my lover". Catches the odd person out but you'd have to be a dick to kick off about it.
In old fashioned diners in the US the older woman would call you "Honey" frequently. This seems to bother the woke crowd. Me, I like the old school waitresses.
I'm part of the woke crowd and have never seen anyone I know get upset about it. In fact, we all tend to like it.
Why "my lover" ?
How did this come to be the phrase?
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that it extended from "Ullo my Love"
There's also "my 'ansome" from woman to man, and "mah bud / buddy" for man-man.
Like most regional English accents, there's tons of variations in a small geographic area and many unique words and phrases.
Scotland too: "hen" to women, "pal" to everyone.