Head servant's assistant returns greeting in French while getting kitchen utensils (8)

'kitchen utensils' is the definition.
'spatulas' can be an answer for 'utensils' (spatula is a kind of utensil). I'm not sure about the 'kitchen' bit.

'head servant's assistant returns greeting in french while' is the wordplay.
'head' suggests taking the first letters.
'assistant' becomes 'PA' (personal assistant).
'returns' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'greeting in french while' becomes 'salut' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The initial letter of 'servants' is 's'.
'salut' back-to-front is 'tulas'.
's'+'pa'+'tulas'='SPATULAS'

'getting' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?