"Walking in" restaurant kitchen lingo.
July 30, 2021 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2021 at 10:54 pm by Brian37.)
I have worked food service and kitchen work most of my life. Never a cook, but bussing and dishwashing. And in most kitchens the proximity is within earshot of the cooks.
Up until my last restaurant the call for a new order was, "listen up" or "up next". But, some restaurants have bullshit lingo that when wait staff enter the kitchen, the head cook says, "Walking in". That makes no fucking sense. If they have already slapped down the ticket, they are already in.
I think more accurate lingo would be, "Next up". If they have already "walked in" and put the order in line, then they are NOT "walking in".
I think lingo like "next in line" or "next up" is more appropriate.
It is like the bullshit of calling a hot dog or "Bruschetta" burger bun and charging 50 dollars more which amounts to fucking bread?
If an order comes into a kitchen, it is an order, it isn't fucking magic. I get price differences. Not against them. But as an employee that listens to that lingo which the customer does not , "Walking In" is nothing more than, "I can charge you 5 million bucks for snails"
Nope sorry. It is true that customers walk into a restaurant. But having worked high traffic joints, I don't want to hear "walking in". I am fine with "In line" or "up next" or even "on deck"........
But Brian, you say you were not a cook? True. But I always had to deal with the fallout.
How about all restaurant staff, front end, wait staff, and bussers and cooks and dishwashers, stop thinking it is our job to give blowjobs to the public? I don't think there is anyone sane, of ANY industry that is against pleasing customers. But some lingo irritates the fuck out of me.
"Walking in" Sounds like a WW2 ship to ship warning of German U Boats and Japanese Zeros.
Every time I hit a high traffic time in the day " Walking in" sounded like a tornado warning.
Up until my last restaurant the call for a new order was, "listen up" or "up next". But, some restaurants have bullshit lingo that when wait staff enter the kitchen, the head cook says, "Walking in". That makes no fucking sense. If they have already slapped down the ticket, they are already in.
I think more accurate lingo would be, "Next up". If they have already "walked in" and put the order in line, then they are NOT "walking in".
I think lingo like "next in line" or "next up" is more appropriate.
It is like the bullshit of calling a hot dog or "Bruschetta" burger bun and charging 50 dollars more which amounts to fucking bread?
If an order comes into a kitchen, it is an order, it isn't fucking magic. I get price differences. Not against them. But as an employee that listens to that lingo which the customer does not , "Walking In" is nothing more than, "I can charge you 5 million bucks for snails"
Nope sorry. It is true that customers walk into a restaurant. But having worked high traffic joints, I don't want to hear "walking in". I am fine with "In line" or "up next" or even "on deck"........
But Brian, you say you were not a cook? True. But I always had to deal with the fallout.
How about all restaurant staff, front end, wait staff, and bussers and cooks and dishwashers, stop thinking it is our job to give blowjobs to the public? I don't think there is anyone sane, of ANY industry that is against pleasing customers. But some lingo irritates the fuck out of me.
"Walking in" Sounds like a WW2 ship to ship warning of German U Boats and Japanese Zeros.
Every time I hit a high traffic time in the day " Walking in" sounded like a tornado warning.
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